Chapter 15-inner world
It was quiet in the Seireitei and everyone was getting on with work when all of a sudden alarms started going off around squad 5, soul reapers panicked not know what the alarms were for but a few seconds later the alarms shut off and nothing had happened at the same time the captain of the 5th left his room and walked past his lieutenant, who was going to ask about the alarms, the captain flashed to squad 4, "evening, Unohana" he said finding the other captain enjoying some tea in the squad 4 gardens
"what a surprise, I would like to thank you for the holiday you arranged for the captains I feel refreshed" Unohana told him
"well thank you, I was happy to do it"
"you seemed to make an impression on Isane she even told me you let her stay in your room when she got locked out, should I be worried?" she asked
"no you know I respect and fear you too much to do anything with your lieutenant and speaking of Isane I need her to help me with a medical emergency" Hikaru said
"what is it?" Unohana asked
Hikaru pulled his arms out of his sleeves and his right arm was burnt badly, Unohana brushed her hand over the skin inspecting the burn, "Isane" she shouted for her lieutenant
"yes captain" the lieutenant came running
"I need you to take Hikaru to one of the private rooms and treat his arm" Unohana handed him over to her, Isane led him to one of the rooms and told him to sit on the bed, he sat down and while she closed the door he took off his captains coat, leaving his chest bare his removed his scarf to show the extent of the burn, covering some of the right side of his face, most of the right side of his body and his entire right arm.
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING!" Isane screamed seeing the captain half naked
"you need to see the entirety of the burn to heal it don't you?" he asked
"yes I do" Isane recovered and started to examine the burn, "what happened"
"well, I was building a reactor and when I tried to increase its output it became unstable so I had to deliver a stabiliser right in to the reactor but my delivery system malfunctioned so I had to take the stabiliser and put it in to the reactor by hand, blaa blaa blaa I have burns on half my body and my reactor is broken" he explained
"I'm guessing you wanted me to treat you because I have seen your face" Isane said as she got up to leave, she came back with a grey cream and started to put it over his burns , "this will help heal the burns but you will have to stay here for at least two week"
"ok, so how have you been Isane?" Hikaru asked as she started to apply the cream to his back
"I have been doing my job but Kiyone has been angry that I went on holiday without her but you don't want to hear about my problems" she said going quiet
"oh I don't mind, Mayuri will normally be talking to the scientist in squad 12 and he will go on for hours" Hikaru said
"ok, what are the people in squad 12 like?" the lieutenant asked curious
"well they are nice people but they can be annoying when it comes to research I would disagree with them sometimes and most of the time I was right" Hikaru said, "I was always the smartest on there but no one wanted to admit it, I was the one who came up with the judgement of god"
"what is the judgement of god?" Isane asked as she finished applying the cream and started to use healing kido
"well it is a theoretical concept of a weapon that is capable of destroying the soul society, hueco mundo and the human world" Hikaru told her causing Isane to stop and look at him
"why would you create something like that?" she asked
"I put down all my ideas and the judgement of god was one of them" he told her
"what if captain Kurotsuchi created it?, you know he is crazy enough" Isane asked
"for one it is theoretical and according to my best estimates the smallest you could get the judgement of god to be is about 1000 meters tall, so if someone were to create it you would know, another thing is that to power it you need 1 billion souls and a 10 captain level soul reapers" Hikaru explained
For the two weeks that Isane spent healing the captain they talked about thing that had happened and played games pretty much anything to pass the time until Hikaru could leave, "thank you lieutenant" he said putting on his scarf and started to leave, "for keeping me company"
Hikaru spent the next few days in his lab finishing off whatever project he was working on, Ichigo was walking around the squad 9 barracks after Rukia shouted at him to leave her alone so she could organise the wedding, Hikaru jumped out of nowhere and surprised the strawberry headed captain.
"where have you been, I haven't seen you for weeks" Ichigo said
"I was getting treated in squad 4" Hikaru told his fellow captain
"what do you want?, and don't stab me" Ichigo grabbed his neck protecting it from Hikaru's syringes
"oh don't worry I won't stab you" Hikaru said before he pulled out a powder and blew it in Ichigo's face causing him to drop to the floor, out cold
When Ichigo first woke up he surveyed the room, it was plain with white walls and celling, when he tried to get up he found he was strapped to a bed with a helmet strapped to his head, "where am I" Ichigo asked
"in my lab" Hikaru walked in to Ichigo's view
"what am I strapped to?" Ichigo asked
"something very exciting?" Hikaru said sitting on a chair and putting a similar helmet on his head, Ichigo saw the helmet was connected to freaky looking machine and the machine was connected to his helmet
"what will this thing do?" Ichigo asked trying to get out of the restraints
"what I made it to do or kill us" Hikaru said flipping a switch on the machine, everything went dark
Ichigo opened his eyes and saw he was in a library with the bookshelves going on forever and going up forever, Hikaru appeared next to Ichigo patting him on the back, "it worked perfectly"
"where am I?" Ichigo asked
"you're in my inner world" Hikaru exclaimed, "follow me"
Ichigo followed him as he walked down the endless corridors taking countless lefts and rights until they got to the centre where two figures sat on a table reading books, "how am I here?" Ichigo asked
"that is what my machine does, it transports a soul in to another souls inner world" Hikaru explained
"how are you doing man" one of the figures walked up to them, he was just shorter than Hikaru and wore a metal mask on the left side of his face as well and a bulky gauntlet on his right hand
"is this your zanpakuto?" Ichigo asked
"yes this is one half of Sozo no ochita kamigami" Hikaru introduce his zanpakuto to Ichigo
"and I'm the other half" another person jumped from the table who looked exactly like the one before but he wore his mask on the right and the gauntlet on the left
"and why did you drag me in to this?" Ichigo turned to Hikaru
"I needed to test it so why not you" Hikaru said like it was natural
"why not because there are so many other soul reapers" Ichigo said "I want to leave"
"fine lets go" Hikaru said and everthing went dark again before Ichigo opened his eyes to see he was in the same room as before, Ichigo was unstrapped and he stormed out of the lab.
End of chapter 15