Chapter 14: secrets and shinigamies
Disclaimer: I don't own Bleach, but I do own all the grammar mistakes
Ichigo: hello you guys!
Me: I know I didn't write for such a lo~ng time, but for me defense there were a lot of unpredictable factors that made it utterly impossible to…
Ichigo: she started a few new stories… AND they're not Bleach stories!
Grimmjow: traitor!
Me: but guys…! I had to!
Grimmjow: no you didn't HAD to! What you had to do was update this story!
Me: but now I have more experience so I will write better!
Ichigo: we'll see about that…
Grimmjow: will there be any GrimmIchi?
Me: maybe…
Ichigo: traitors! Both of you!
When the heart cries
Then we know that it's real
And that all that we've been through
Wasn't a dream,
Even if we wished it had…
"What do I need to do to make you talk?" a small smile crept onto the smaller hollow's face as he heard this, knowing he would get his way with his demand.
"A small thing really; you just have to make sure that Ichigo Kurosaki will never come to harm…"
Ulquiorra looked at the small hollow and frown, why should he care for some shinigami that can't take care of himself; he rolled his eyes, but then stopped, it was weird, why would Toki want him to take care of some shinigami; no, that wasn't that, there was a reason as to why he asked him that, that shinigami brat was important and he now knew that.
"Why would you want me to protect the brat?" he asked the other hollow, Toki just looked at him while thinking, and then sighed, as if he was giving up.
"Do you really want to know?" he asked the stronger hollow, Ulquiorra nodded eagerly
"Ok, then I will tell you, the brat as you called him, is probably the next king of hollows and shinigamies, that is if he will accept his family real identities" he took a deep breath before he continued
"The brat, is going to be the most powerful thing that ever lived, and I really mean that… he will become a lot more powerful than Aizen, his father or grandfather. He would be stronger then all of his other friends, or enemies…!"
Ulquiorra didn't know what he should say, if the brat was indeed what Toki said he was, than why did he need his protection? He didn't have any time to think about that before Toki continued with his speech.
"But that will happen three months from now… until then he will need your protection as you called that…" Ulquiorra smiled evilly, and considering, he was who he was, that was saying something.
"If I will believe you, that must mean that the brat is with the king, am I not right?" he asked the smaller hollow, that suddenly went pale, understanding what a big mistake he had done just now, that his tongue slipped, now the other could just use the prince's spiritual power to find where the king lived.
Ulquiorra took out his hand and charged a cero at the other smaller hollow while saying
"Don't you worry… I will take good care of Ichigo Kurosaki… more like, Aizen will"
Aizen by all means was not happy. Ulquiorra took too much time in his research and Aizen had no time to wait for his return. He had to act now!
The other hollows were getting impassionate, there were talks about him being unqualified to rule. Mostly the servants, he still didn't hear anything that suggested that his fateful Espada would betray him, but life was a tricky bitch and anything that could happen, mostly happened… and so, being careful was a must as things stood now.
At the other side, the damn shinigamies tried everything they could think of to sabotage his plans, which was really bothersome, but didn't really matter in the long run.
Aizen could feel that the king had started to use his power at the last few months, getting more and more hollows to follow him and abandon Aizen. This was a bit more than bothersome, especially now that Grimmjow wasn't here. Sometimes he wondered if it was time to track him and get him back here, where he truly belonged; it wasn't a good thing to let him stay out there with that meddling king that could take the other away from him. But not now, it wasn't the right time…
So, having nothing better to do, he decided he was going to try and find that Ichigo, who he just now heard, had gone missing. Aizen hoped that maybe this time he will have better time convincing the brat to join him and his cause, what he found however was a lot more interesting than he had ever hoped!
At first he couldn't find the boy's spiritual power in the living world, he had known that he couldn't possibly be at the shinigami's one, so that only left HIS world. Why was the Kurosaki brat in Hondo Mondo?
Why couldn't Aizen feel his spiritual power even now? Aizen was going to investigate farther but Ulquiorra finally appeared. And that report was… eye opening…
The past is the past
But it effects the present
Life is hard
But it's worth living
You will know when the sun
Shines brightly at the night
"I-Isshin, call me Isshin." he said awkwardly. She laughed out loud and her voice was that of an angel's. He swallowed the lump in his throat. "So Isshin, do you want to walk me home?" she asked with a beautiful smile and he couldn't say no.
She's the one that led the way, for he didn't know where they should be going to; so instead of leading he concentrated on what he did best, which was to embarrass himself, and what a wonderful job he did, he thought sadly to himself.
"So ...?" Beautiful girl asked, looking at him with a smile, he looked at her curiously, wanting to hear and cherish everything that came out of her mouth, every smile and extraordinary tone, "How old are you?" She asked him,
Despite the seemingly simple question that it was, from her perspective obviously, it was just the opposite for him.
He had no idea how old he was by human years.
He did not want to look stupid in front of her so instead he chose a sensible number to be his age, I mean, it seems unreasonable before she burst into wild laughter ...
"I'm ten ..." He said, she looked at him in surprise and then laughed; it insulted him a little but he realized that he probably said something wrong, the blame here was his, and it was his alone.
"Yes, and I'm the Queen of England!" She said and turned around 360 degrees of rotation, then bowed.
He rolled his eyes not knowing what to make of it all, she thought he was lying that mach was clear; she also thought he was laughing with her, she didn't take what he said seriously.
He sighed, not knowing what he should do, he was so busy thinking that he didn't notice the stupid looking shinigamies that were tracking him, and he didn't hear them talk about him and lovely Masaki too.
But they did.
"say boss" said one of them, the so called "boss" looked at him waiting for the other to ask his question, "why is that shinigami talking to that human girl?" he asked, his voice was filled with lust. The boss, a shinigami named Rupin looked at his subordinate with a cold stare, not doing anything at the moment, "after all he did come from the hollows world…" the shinigami continued, "what does he want with that small… cute… beautiful human?", Rupin rolled his eyes.
"Isn't it obvious?" he said with a small calm voice "he wants the same as you, probably…" the shinigami frowned, not liking the answer, and then he looked at the others in the group.
"we should go capture him now… before he will do something that's against the laws" he said with a cheery voice, even though he looked like some stupid ass trying to impress a girl that didn't even knew he existed, and because he was shinigami, she really didn't know…
"no not yet, we shell wait until he's alone, then we will strike… do you understand Kochiro?" said the boss, Rupin. All the shinigamies nodded with fear; after all it was known that Rupin was monster-ly strong, and that he kills all those that are weak enough after they break his word. It was then that a scary smile shone on Kochiro's face, he looked at his boss, then at the beautiful girl and the weird shinigami, and it didn't take long for him to take his sword out.
"fight me, and the one who's standing at the end will chose what to do with this shinigami" said Kochiro while grinning, he had a half mad look in his eyes, as if some hollow possessed him.
"do you really think you can take me on?" asked Rupin, Kochiro laughed at his boss's stupidity, of course he could, he will win and then he will kill all the other of his team, kill the strange shinigami, and take the girl to himself. If he will be asked who was it that killed them all, he would blame the shinigami, his plan was flawless!
All the anger that I feel
I wish it disappeared
All the sorrow in my life
I want to throw away
So when you will come
There would be nothing of that left
"I think your father wants to leave the throne to Ichigo. I think he wants Ichigo to be the next king…."
"Are you sure?" the voice was quiet and freezing, that wasn't the reaction that Urahara was expecting, no, he was expecting some sort of explosion, yet there was only that cold chilly sort of feeling, which if he might add, he didn't really liked at all.
"Yes. I am 100% sure" the other man, Isshin, nodded as if he expected that reaction, he looked old and tired, but also really powerful. A small smile was craved onto Urahara's lips, this going to be interesting, and he was going to enjoy it.
"He's going to tell him… isn't he?" Isshin asked the green dressed man.
"Probably" Urahara admitted quietly.
"I have to stop him! Ichigo must not know!" he said insisting. If it wasn't Urahara that he was talking with right now, the spiritual power alone would have made any other persona pass out long ago...
"Are you sure? What if this is what Kurosaki-san needs right now? Are perfectly sure that this is the right thing to do?" Urahara's voice was very weak.
"I'm sure. Do you know where he is right now?" Isshin asked with a low voice.
"I will know when Rukia will get there. When she was asleep I placed a tracking device on her clothes, right now I can only give a general location of where she is going and at what level of the hollow's homes she is"
"Thanks, but that won't be enough" Isshin said.
"I'm sure she will get there soon enough. Then all we will have to do will be following her. I was on my way to follow her when you found me"
"That's not fast enough. I have to get there. Now!" he whispered angrily "he mustn't know! I can only hope we will get there on time…"
"And you know where they are?" Isshin nodded.
"I have a guess. If I'm wrong we will follow Rukia, but that only after I will check some places that HE might be in" Urahara looked at the black haired man and nodded in understanding, but just had to ask that next question…
"Are you sure he won't be able to handle it?"
"If he learnt the true, he will turn his back on all shinigami alive, or dead. After all they are the reason for her death in the end…"