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Chapter 21: Monday, The start of a new life
Urgh those two! I know they're in a hurry but couldn't they have waited for me before getting out?! I was now walking to school alone since some people refused to stay and wait. For what reason, I don't know. Then felt something coming towards me. Apples? Yes, apples were rolling towards me. I swiftly caught them, looking for the source.
"Thank you so much." Then I saw a young man with brown hair and glasses coming towards me with a bundle of apples in his arms. "I'm so sorry. I'm afraid my bag broke and they just rolled away."
"Oh, in that case. Here." I handed him portable cloth bag (You know, the one's which can wrap up into a small bundle) from my school bag. "Maybe next time you should use one of these. It won't break that easily." I suggested, placed all the apples inside and passed it to him.
"Are you sure I can have this?" he asked quite shocked.
"It's alright. I have plenty of those at home. Have a good day." I waved to him and continued my way to school. Not knowing that the man kept a keen eye on me as I walked away.
In the school hallway:
"I can't believe you know him! It's like fate that you two met." Rangiku exclaimed. I only told Rangiku and Rukia about my relationship with Kurusu Aoi. And let me tell you, they were ecstatic. "You sure you two are not…"
"For the hundredth time Rangiku, we're just friends." I said.
"Just making sure." She replied. Maybe I shouldn't have told her about this. Then I heard a few gasps down the hall and saw two tall figures coming in. One had shiny white hair, slit eyes and a creepy grin. He wore a white shirt with a black vest over it, beige pants and shoes. The other had long brown hair, was quite tanned and wore a pair of dark glasses over his eyes. He wore a simple black suit and brown shoes.
"Who are they? New senseis?" I asked.
"No, I doubt so." Rangiku replied in a stern voice. She looked at them with focused eyes, very rare. As I turned from her to my front, I found the silver hair man standing right in front of me very closely.
"Wah!" I cried out in shock. He seemed to be inspecting me intensely. Going around me, checking out me as if I was under interrogation. Then he took my cheek and looked into my eyes, or at least I thought so.
"Looks like we found her." He said cheerfully. What? Before I knew it, I was carried on top of his shoulder.
"Wait! What are you doing?!" I screamed, flailing my arms and legs to try and break free.
"Gin! Put her down this instant!" Rangiku demanded.
"Gin? Wait! You know this guy?!" I exclaimed.
"He's my ex-boyfriend." Rangiku simply answered.
"Ex-boyfriend?! But he looks much older than you!" I exclaimed again.
"I preferred mature men at that time." Rangiku replied, dazing off to her past memories.
"That doesn't make any sense! Anyway, put me down!" I demanded.
"No can do sugar." He said. Sugar?! Is he a player or something?! "The big guy wants to see ya."
"Big guy? What are you talking about?!" I asked in desperation.
"I got her things. Let's get going." The pother man then came back holding my bag.
"Put that down! For starters, how did you even know that's mine?!" I was practically in a desperate position here.
"Alright then. Let's get going." The man holding me started to go down the hall.
"Did you even listen to me?! I said put me down!" I cried out and Rangiku and Rukia followed me behind, trying to get me back.
The other side, No one's POV:
"I can't believe you got into another fight again." Hitsugaya complained. He had to save Ichigo from almost being expelled by stopping his and Renji's useless fights.
"Sorry, but he completely ticked me off." Ichigo complained, still having some tick marks on his forehead.
"He stealing one piece of your chicken doesn't mean that it's the end of the world." Hitsugaya said exasperated.
"…put me down!" then they heard that cry and looked in front and saw Kurara being carried away by some stranger.
"EEEHHH!" Ichigo cried out in shock while Hitsugaya just stared in disbelief. (Both of their expressions, 0_0) Then they saw Rangiku and Rukia tailing behind, trying to stop the two men. "Uh, did you just see that or was it just me?" Ichigo stammered.
"No, I saw it too." Hitsugaya answered. And they both took off after them.
Kurara's POV:
"For the last and final time. Put. Me. DOWN!" I exclaimed at the top of my voice. Then they shoved me into a car parked outside the school gate.
"Gin!" Rangiku screamed.
"Ah Ran-chan. So nice to see you again." The man named Gin said.
"Well I can't say the same for you! Now let her out from there!" Rangiku demanded.
"Like I said, the big guy wants to see her. So I can't let her go." Gin replied with his creepy grin.
"Just who is this big guy?!" Rukia exclaimed.
"I'm afraid that's confidential." The other man answered in a cool voice. I kept banging the window from inside the car.
"If you can't let her go, then let us come with her." I then saw Hitsugaya, Ichigo and Kuchiki sensei from a distance. "If you're not doing anything bad to her, surely you wouldn't mind taking us along." Hitsugaya calmly said.
"Besides, it's a rule that when a student goes out during school hours, a teacher must follow." Kuchiki sensei continued.
"Well, that's…" Gin stammered.
"It's fine. The boss said its fine." The other man said, getting off the phone.
"Well, then in that case, hop in." Gin opened the door and let them in.
"Rangiku! How in the world did you date this guy?!" I asked, pointing at Gin.
"I guess I was really desperate and learned to persevere." Rangiku calmly answered. Is she serious?! A few minutes later, we found ourselves approaching a very large building with a giant stone sign at the front with 'Hueco Mundo Productions' carved on it.
"Hueco Mundo? Weird name." Ichigo commented. We were then led to an office room for the director. Wait! The director wanted to see me?!
"Aizen, we brought the girl. And her friends." Gin knocked on the large doors and reported.
"Let them in." a male voice replied from within. Then the two men opened the door, revealing a large office room with a man standing by the large window. "Ah, Haruno Kurara. Nice for you to join me." He replied. He had his brown hair gelled to the back with a strand between his eyes and looked at me with cool brown eyes.
"Uh yeah." I said, wanting so badly to complain about the unwanted welcome. "Uhm, your…men said you wanted to see me." Wait! How did he even know my name?!
"Ah yes. But before that let me introduce myself. I am Aizen Sosuke. Over there is Ichimaru Gin and Kaname Tousen, my right hand men. Actually dear Kurara, we met before." He said. Looking at my unsure face, he took out glasses from the giant desk's drawer, ruffled his hair a bit and put the glasses on.
"Ah! You're the man from earlier!" I said.
"You met him?" Ichigo asked.
"Yes. Because two certain boys didn't want to wait for me and I had to take another route, thus me meeting him." I turned to Ichigo and Hitsugaya and said.
"You're still mad about that?" Hitsugaya commented.
"Sorry about that." Ichigo said.
"Anyways, what do you need Haruno for? It must be important you sent these men to pick her up personally." Kuchiki sensei asked sternly, stepping forward as if to hide me from Aizen-san.
"Ah yes. Well you see, one of my model's had a very bad fall and broke her arm. So when I saw this young girl by the streets, I knew she would be the perfect replacement." Aizen-san answered, looking at me.
"Wait, you want her to model for you? But don't you have many models here already?" Hitsugaya asked. We did see many girls walking around the area.
"Yes, but like I said. I wanted her since she made a perfect match. So please, it's only for once." He pleaded. I looked at Kuchiki sensei for an answer.
"Very well. But only this once." He sighed. Suddenly I felt something tug my arm. It was Gin.
"Gin, you know where to bring her." Aizen-san said. Gin gave a roger sign and dragged me away.
"Big brother, is this really ok?" Rukia asked.
"I'm not sure myself. You better be keeping your word." Kuchiki sensei glared at Aizen-san.
"Of course I am. Now Tousen, please bring them to the stage." With that, the rest followed Tousen out.
In the dressing room:
"Get her ready for photo shoot 7." Gin ordered. "Don't worry. These people will get you looking like a princess." Gin reassured and left the room. Oh boy, why must these things happen to me?!
"Oh, a new recruit?" I heard a female voice and turned to see two older women. One had long green hair, hazel eyes and wearing a black top and jacket, short tight skirt and boots with a skull bandanna on her head. The other had long blonde hair with three braided locks, green eyes, wore a jacket with a high collar over a white top, white pants and black shoes.
"Uhm, actually I'm just a replacement for today." I replied as a woman fixed my makeup.
"Oh I see. You do look a little young for this. Anyways, I'm Nelliel Tu Odelschwanck, you can call me Nel. She's Tier Harribel." The green hair woman introduced. "We're part of the idol group, Espada." Oh yeah, Rukia was looking at them in a magazine recently. "So you'll be doing a scene with Ulqiorra huh?"
"Ulqiorra?" I asked.
"Well, looks like you don't really know much about us. The man you'll be taking photos with is Ulqiorra Cifer. He's kind of emotionless but takes his job seriously. Once you get to know him, you can tell he's a nice guy." Nel said.
"I see." I replied.
"Anyway, enough chit chat! Let's get you ready before he gets irritated. He tends to be quite impatient." Nel urged as she puched me to the cloth racks.
"I think you're talking about Grimmjow." Harribel finally spoke up.
"He's another member of the group. Grimmjow Jaegerjaquez." Nel responded after seeing my confused face. "Now hurry up and change into this." Nel pushed me a piece of clothing and into the changing room. This is gonna be a long day…
At the stage, No one's POV:
"How long does it take for one girl to change?" Ichigo complained.
"You should know considering the fact you live with one." Hitsugaya replied in an annoyed tone.
"Well, it has been an hour so I don't blame him." Kuchiki sensei said. "Rukia what is the matter, you have been scrunching over there ever since we got here." He turned to his younger sister who was thinking hard about something.
"No, I just have a feeling I know something about this place." Rukia answered before thinking again. Then doors opened and Kurara came in. Everyone was shocked.
She let her hair down and wore a red hairband with a ribbon on the right. She wore a red long sleeve jacket with a high collar and a yellow ribbon with long laces in the middle of the collar, had a skirt with white then blue and white again, long black lace socks and short red boots with blue heels. (For a better description, search for Hatsune Miku's clothes and try to find one that seems close to this.)
Ichigo' Thoughts:
Is that really Kurara?! Wow she looks…amazing!
Hitsugaya's Thoughts:
Wow, she really looks cute in that. She's like a different person!
Kuchiki's Thoughts:
Amazing. I guess that Aizen did do something good.
Kurara's POV:
Wow, this actually looks really good on me.
"Kurara!" I heard Rangiku coming towards me with Rukia. "You look so cute in that! You totally need to dress up more." Rangiku complimented as she looked at my new outfit. I looked at the three guys and they were staring at me in awe. I hope that means I look good in this…
"Excuse me miss, your partner is here and waiting." One of the assistant reported.
"Partner? Who are you taking photos with?" Rangiku asked.
"Ulqiorra Cifer."I answered.
"Oh yeah! Now I remember! This place is where the new idol team, Espada works in. Wow, you gonna take photos with one of them. I'm gonna have to take photos of this." Rukia said to herself as she went back to the guys.
"Now now, hurry along. Can't keep the boy waiting." Rangiku pushed me to the set. There I saw a boy, about 3 years older than me. He had messy black hair, pale white skin, green eyes like a cat's with green lines going down below each eye, wearing a black coat with grey fur at the collar over a grey shirt, black jeans and brown shoes.
"So, you're the substitute?" he asked in a cool voice. I nodded. No wonder he's an idol. He actually looks quite cool. "Let's get this over with then." And we proceeded with the photo shoot. Truthfully, it was actually kind of fun. I had fun posing around. I could even see Rukia taking pictures with her phone at the back.
"Alright. For the last photo, I need you guys to show some closeness." The photographer said. Closeness? How are we going to do that? Before I knew it, Ulqiorra-san placed his hand on my head and pulled me to his chest. EH?!
"Don't get so flustered. Remember, they're taking photos of us." Ulqiorra-san reminded me. Well then you should have given me a warning before you go and grab my head! I bet I'm blushing real hard right now!
Ichigo's POV:
What the hell?! What's with that man?!
I stood there in shock as I saw that bastard pull Kurara to his chest. Rangiku stared at the scene in awe, Rukia started taking pictures at lightning speed, and Toshiro and Byakuya practically had the same expressions as me.
Kurara's POV:
"Alright, that's a wrap. Good job everyone." The photographer said as the staff started to pack up. Thank goodness it's over.
"Oh, good work out there Ulqiorra-san." I said.
"Whatever. You too, did a good job." He said before leaving the set.
"Wow! You looked amazing there!" Rukia chimed in as the others followed behind.
"Yeah, well I better give this back." I said.
"No need." Gin said as he approached us. "Aizen said you could have it. Take it as a well done present. Well, see ya." And he left.
"Why do I have a feeling that Aizen is being a little too nice to you?" Hitsugaya grumbled.
Wednesday:
"Urgh. I…I think…we lost them…" Ichigo panted. He, Hitsugaya and I just managed to escape the flood of students who wanted to chat talk to me about my recent photo shoot with the famous Ulqiorra.
"Urgh…I…hope so…Sorry…for dragging you guys…into this." I panted.
"Don't worry…We're more…or less…used to this." Hitsugaya reassured through his gasps for air.
"Hey Kurara!" Rangiku quickly ran to me to avoid revealing my whereabouts. "Urahara sensei said that Principal Yamamoto wanted to see you."
"Principal Yamamoto? What for?" I asked.
"Dunno, he didn't say but he wanted to see you as soon as possible." Rangiku answered. Hearing that, I left for the office.
"Excuse me, Principal Yamamoto. It's Haruno Kurara, you wanted to see me." I knocked on the office door and asked.
"Yes, do come in." I went in at his word and was shocked. Standing beside him, was Aizen-san.
"Aizen-san? What are you doing here?" I asked, trying to hide my total surprise.
"I've come here to give you the opportunity of a lifetime." He answered. "I want you, to become part of the Espada, as Uno." Wait what?! Part of Espada as number 1! I heard from Rukia that members of the Espada uses numbers to represent themselves. Nel is Due 2, Harribel is Tre 3, Ulqiorra is Quattro 4 and Grimmjow is Sei 6. Turns out that Grimmjow didn't like to be five, so they put him as six.
"Uhm, I appreciate your offer but I'm afraid I'll have to decline it. I would like to finish my studies here." I said. Principal Yamamoto seemed somewhat pleased with my answer.
"I don't think you realize the great things to come if you joined. Just base on one page of your photo and the whole world goes wild. I believe you can become an idol in no time." Aizen-san pressurized.
"Look, I appreciate the offer but idol business isn't for me. I like studying here and I want to continue to stay here." I said. Then Aizen-san sighed.
"I guess I'll have to do this the hard way." He then came up to me, bent down and whispered into my ear. What?!
In the classroom, Hitsugaya's POV:
"Here." I passed Kurosaki my Chemistry notes.
"Thanks man." He said.
"Man, will it hurt you to be a little more responsible?!" I muttered.
"I've been asking him that for years and nothing's changed." Rukia cut in. Then she looked out of the window and gasped.
"What's wrong Rukia?" Rangiku asked.
"Why is Kurara going out of school?" the minute she asked that, all of us went and looked out of the window. It was really Haruno, and…
"Aizen?! What's he doing here? And with Kurara!" Ichigo exclaimed. Then we saw her getting into the car with him.
"What in the world is she doing?!" Rangiku exclaimed. "We gotta get to her!" before any of us could run out, my phone rang. It was Haruno.
"Haruno! What the hell are you doing?!" I exclaimed through the phone and the other three closed in to listen in.
"Look, just hear me out. I really had a fun time here with you guys, but I got an offer and I can't pass it up." She said softly.
"But, it's not like you to go and do idol business!" Ichigo grabbed my phone and exclaimed.
"Plus, the least you could have done was talk to us about it!" Rangiku snatched the phone and said.
"Look, I'm really sorry. Also, please don't come for me. It'll make things worse. I just want to say thank you for all that you have done. Oh yeah, and pass this message to Kuchiki sensei. Bye." Before Rangiku could shout back, she ended the call.
"What was that?" Rukia stammered.
"Is she really going that way? We'll never see each other again." Rangiku mumbled, almost tearing.
"Damn it!" Ichigo punched the wall with all his strength, filled with regret.
Her voice sounded like she wanted to cry. This wasn't her choice. That bastard Aizen must have done something to persuade her. When I get my hands on him, he's so dead.
How was it?! The drama. I finally put the espadas in, as well as the Aizen crew. Hope you guys enjoyed it and pls review.