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Hollow king chapter four
An encounter with the angel at the hospital and the demon in the lab
Gondra slowly opened his eyes to see a pretty girl in a white room.
"Is that an angel? Am I in heaven? Please don't let it be another person in my head….. Wait, a shihakusho it's a shinigami. This must be the squad four medical center." He thought to himself as he studied the beautiful woman reading over his medical chart.
He noticed her short lavender hair with several small braids that framed the soft features of her face. Her red earrings shining in the mid day sun through the hospital windows. She noticed him waking up, her dark grey eyes met his sky blue ones for a brief moment before she looked away.
"Well at least they gave me a cute nurse." Gondra stated with a smirk.
The girl turned red with blush as she lowered her head so the shadow of her hair covered her eyes and attempted to quickly leave the room when the unexpectedly collided with a wall of muscle. She cautiously looked up to see the face of Kenpachi looking down at her with an uninterested look on his face, like he just noticed her. She proceeded to run out of the room screaming. She ran down the hall and turned a corner resting her back against the wall; after she caught her breath she thought to herself "he thinks I'm cute?"
"Kenny! You scared Isane again!" Yachiru shouted hanging off Kenpachi's shoulder as he and the others entered the room.
"It seems that lieutenant Kotetsu is still afraid of you captain." Yumichika stated wile Zaraki laughed.
Gondra shot up from bed.
"That was a lieutenant!?"
"Yes fourth company Lieutenant Isane Kotetsu, they probably required someone of her caliber to heal you, I heard that the last attack almost pierced your heart."
Yumichika stated looking at the bandages wrapped around Gondra's bare chest. Yumichika looked down at a stopwatch that he took out of his pocket.
"It looks like you owe the new fourth seat a drink Ikkaku."
Gondra got out of bed and threw on his shihakusho top noticing it was the same one, it had just been washed and mended. Gondra liked the new frayed look it had like Kenpachi's captains jacket.
"Let's go." Kenpachi stated as he turned to exit the room with Yachiru still on his shoulder.
"Come on Gondra, squad four tends to get nervous with all the squad elevens here." Yumichika stated with a smile.
As the five exited the squad four compound Gondra heard a kind gentle voice behind him. He turned to see another captain this one with long black braided hair and a kind face. He noticed Isane standing behind her as if she was hiding or using the other woman as a barrier between her and Gondra.
"It's good to see you up and about." The captain said with a kind smile.
"You were out for two days after all, it seems Isane did a good job at stopping the bleeding." She turned to her left to look at Kenpachi.
"Captain Zaraki I would appreciate it if you would refrain from injuring your men so severely in the future."
"Yeah yeah." Kenpachi stated as he walked away.
Gondra looked up at Isane but she just looked away burying her face in a medical chart to avoid eye contact, his gaze stirred something in her.
As the team walked across the squad four court yard Kenpachi noticed Gondra trying to adjust his zanpakuto in his obi sash.
"Not used to keeping your blade around your waist huh?"
Gondra looked up.
"Yeah it's a lot more comfortable on my back."
"You guys go on ahead me and Gondra are going to stop by Kurotsuchi's."
"Yay we get to go visit Creepy-Chan!" Yachiru cheered.
"Okay captain see you guys at the bar."
"Don't let Kurotsuchi creep you out to much Gondra." Ikkaku mentioned while walking away with Yumichika to the bar.
As Gondra and Kenpachi approached the lab Gondra looked up to see a laughing sign that read R&D. Kurotsuchi was hunched over a computer terminal punching in key furiously. The screen flashed in red alert as Gondra and Kenpachi entered the room two signatures on the screen he recognized immediately, the violent golden reatsu of Kenpachi and the violet pink reatsu of Yachiru but the other signature that was cobalt blue with a jet black lining the same one that set off the red alert was very different the text on the computer flashed unknown shinigami arrancar hybrid approaching. Mayuri decided to take his mind of the subject momentarily and turn to glair at Kenpachi.
"Zaraki! For the last time I want you, your men, and that hippy Kyoraku to stay out of my greenhouse!!"
Gondra laughed to himself having a good idea of what kind of plant they were stealing. Kurotsuchi looked up scratching the side of his head.
"You know I was thinking of having Akon plant a carnivorous man eating vine in there, but you would just kill it for sport wouldn't you, you cretin!!" Mayuri shouted pointing a long boney finger at Zaraki.
Gondra just stood back and watched; to him this guy looked like a demon that just stepped out if an acid trip.
"So why are you here anyway? Cant you see that I'm busy!?" Kenpachi folded his arms and cocked his head to one side a little with a sharp grin on his face.
"come on Kurotsuchi Akon told me you have it so hand it over." Mayuri sighed wile rolling his eyes.
He walked over to a drawer labeled power limiters and took out another eye patch.
"Fine. Here you are Zaraki, an upgraded eye patch."
Zaraki removed his existing eye patch causing the air around him to erupt in spiritual pressure. Gondra stood there with a what the fuck look on his face thinking this guy is that much stronger!? Kenpachi attached the new eye patch this one with a white ex over the eye and twice as many eyes and mouths on the other side wile grinning as his reatsu diminished.
"while you're at it my fourth seat could use a new sword strap." Kenpachi stated pointing a thumb over his shoulder at Gondra.
"Fine just get out!" Kurotsuchi snapped.
After Kenpachi and Yachiru left to go join Ikkaku and Yumichika at the bar Kurotsuchi turned his focus to Gondra.
"So tell me boy…" Kurotsuchi said as he stepped up to Gondra creeping him out a little bit.
"How long have you had the power of a hollow?"
Gondra's eyes shot open and he took a step back.
"How the hell do you know that!?"
"You will find that the president of research and development can come across all sorts of information if so inclined."
"So what do you want from me to keep this a secret the soul society kind of has a no hollow policy." Kurotsuchi extended a hand his sharp black fingernails pointed at Gondra.
"I propose a deal, in exchange for some research data I will keep this a secret and supply you with invaluable field equipment." Gondra smirked and shook Mayuri's outstretched hand.
"Deal, sounds like a good idea to have a captain owe you a favor."
"excellent if you would step over here and try to channel some of your hollow's spiritual pressure into that orb." Mayuri stated pointing a long black nail at a bowling ball sized glass sphere with several thick cables attached to it leading over to a computer.
As Gondra placed a hand over the sphere and channeled dark reatsu into it Mayuri typed vigorously at the terminal his golden eyes glued to the monitor. He glanced over at Gondra with an interested look on his death mask like face.
"My what an interesting side affect."
Gondra caught a look at his reflection on a metal surface, on the left side of his check he noticed a small bone like fragment forming below a black and amber eye.
"Sup Jack?"
Gondra leaped back and looked at Kurotsuchi who continued to type away at the computer terminal. He hit the enter key and began to rummage through the same drawer as before, he pulled out a long grey metal strap linked together by metal squares, Kurotsuchi tossed the belt over to Gondra.
"Payment for the data."
Gondra attached the strap around his chest over one shoulder and clicked his zanpakuto to the back. The grey metal tiles turned black and blue absorbing some of his spiritual pressure.
"That metal is derived from sekki-seki rock it should help conceal your inner hollow. It appears your hollow powers are still in their developmental stage, I would say that your hollow is at a Gillian level menos stage."
Gondra thought back to a textbook he read in the academy more specifically the picture in that book of the huge towering creature. Gondra turned around and started to walk away heading to the bar.
"See you later professor."
Kurotsuchi snorted at the strange nickname and went back to his research.
I thought this was a good place to leave off. Thank you for reading and if you like the story do me a favor, please tell other people about it. And don't forget to review. Peace
-Sandragon out…..