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~Rini and Ayame's room~
"Rini-chan... Are you awake." Ayame asked into the darkness of the room.
"I am now." Grumbled a tired girl who turned over to face her pink haired room mate. "Just keep quiet. We shouldn't wake up Karin-chan and Yuzu-chan."
"Do you think I should have told Urahara-san?" There was a slight sound of guilt in her voice. Ayame hated keeping secrets.
"He wouldn't have started your training until you got control over your Reiatsu anyway. So it doesn't really matter." Rini was tired, but knew how much this was bothering her friend.
Ayame had told her a few nights ago that she started to hear a voice inside her head and had often found herself in a forest with fluffy green, pink, blue and orange trees everywhere. To anyone else, it sounded like she needed to go to a mental hospital, but Rini knew that her friend had a zanpakutou spirit in her head and had found her inner world.
"You have full control. Why won't he let you try?" Ayame asked.
"Because I haven't heard my zanpakutou." Rini replied with a bit of sadness in her voice.
"I don't think Yuzu-chan did either, but she got one. I'm sure if you tried you would get one too." Ayame was trying to cheer up her friend that she had known since childhood.
"I don't think I could stand the disappointment of failing. But don't let my depressing thoughts keep you from getting yours. I'm surprised you haven't been able to fully suppress your Reiatsu yet." Rini tried to get the conversation away from herself.
"I just can't seem to drop it any farther. " Ayame said while sitting up and wrapping her arms around her knees.
"Try this," Rini sat up and faced Ayame. "Close your eyes and picture you Reiatsu running through a glass water pipe." Ayame closed her eyes and scrunched her face in concentration. "Now picture a valve on the pipe." Ayame tilted her head continuing to form the picture in her head. "Now slowly turn the valve shut until no drops fall through the pipe." Rini watched her friend as she slowly felt the pink haired girl's Reiatsu disappear until it was gone.
Rini could still feel traces of it, but that was something she could do. Feel others Reiatsu even if they were completely hiding it and she was able to find anyone as long as she had a trace amount of their Reiatsu. She had learned to detect other people's Reiatsu to avoid running into anyone she didn't want to. For a little while Urahara was in that category, but soon dropped out of it once he showed that he wanted to help the two girls.
Ayame opened her eyes and stared at a smiling Rini. "Congrats. You did-" Was all Rini could say before she was attacked by a squealing Ayame.
~living room~
Kisuke could hear the girl's conversation and most certainly heard Ayame's squeal of joy. 'Looks like I will have to tell Kuchiki-san to bring another zanpakutou with her when she returns. Good job Awazaki-san.' Kisuke smiled to himself. He remembered when he first found the two girls just barely managing to keep the Hollows at bay. Both lived on their own and shared an apartment. Neither trusted him, but he knew they would eventually come around. A week later they were occupying one of his guest rooms and helping around the shop to pay for room and board, and training To be able to suppress their Reiatsu.
"Sounds like someone is excited." A tall man with long white hair tied in a pony tail walked in and sat down. "I already let my Fukutaichou know to bring another zanpakutou and to inform the Soutaichou of another substitute shinigami." He smiled at the shopkeeper sitting across the table from him.
"Sounds like you read my mind." Urahara replied with a smile on his face. "How are classes going, Ukitake-sensei?"
"Quite we'll actually. Never thought I would enjoy teaching. But having all the girls looking at me and watching me is unnerving." He replied while scratching the back of his head.
"Well, hopefully this mission won't take long. But to think Aizen would hide himself in the Human world. Too bad his Reiatsu is sealed. Other wise we could have just tracked him down." He paused then sighed heavily. He would have preferred for the traitorous man to have remained locked up in his prison cell. But fate seemed to be favouring others at the moment.
Both men heard footsteps and turned the door to see Rini walk in looking at the ceiling. "Something wrong with the roof?" Urahara asked with a questioning look on his face.
"Thought I felt a Reiatsu. It was faint and I didn't recognize it." Rini was confused at the sudden disappearance of the Reiatsu. She had felt it there since she had gotten back from school. It was extremely faint, but it was constant. She hadn't gotten a chance to memorize it though, to many other reiatsus were interfering.
"Hollow?" The shop keeper asked with a worried look.
"I don't know. It had a bit of the same feeling, but mostly not. Could be a shinigami with hollow powers." Rini hoped that Urahara would confirm whether or not she was right.
"Or a hollow with shinigami powers." Urahara stated flatly while getting up and walking toward his room and his laptop. He needed to do some research And get in contact with some people.
~living room once the sun was up~
"So what kind of problem do we have?" Renji was tired. He was woken up by a high pitch sound during the night and wasn't able to get back to sleep.
"The problem is that Abe-san detected someone on the roof last night that she did not recognize. I have exposed her to most of the Reiatsus on file in my data base of shinigami from Soul Society." Urahara explained.
"I'm guessing you found a match." Hitsugaya knew that even if no one answered the blond man would still tell them, but he didn't feel like waiting.
"Yes. We did." Urahara paused thinking if the best way to say it, but decided he was just going to say it straight. "The Reiatsu matched Aizen Sosuke."
You could have heard a pin drop in the silence that followed Urahara's statement.
"So what you're saying is that he knows about your shop." Isshin Kurosaki said while leaning into the room. He had been called once the discovery was made. Kisuke knew the man wanted to know of any danger that his children might be in, especially his daughters.
"Seeing as how this location has been compromised. I was thinking we could move base to soul society. Or," he pause lifting one figure into the air, "we could go to another location." He looked around the room. Seeing as how most everyone had a confused look on their face he continued. "That will just mean we have to bring Hirako-Taichou into this mission as well."
"You saying we're including the Visoreds into this." Ichigo spoke up seeing were the conversation was going.
"If they will let us hang out with them." Urahara stated with doubt in his voice.
~Soul Society~
"Achoo" Hirako-Taichou wiped his nose. 'Some one must be gossiping about me. Probably the shrimp Hiyori.' He thought to himself. He was on his way to the first squad barracks. He stopped suddenly. 'It couldn't be' he thought as he looked around. He felt a Reiatsu, one he could never forget. His old Fukutaichou.
"He said this would make you stop." Said a boy standing behind him. He had deep blue hair partially in a clip that went to his shoulder and a piece of a hollow mask to give him a pair of sunglasses on his face. His outfit looked exactly like a shinigami's but the colors switched.
Shinji knew what he was on site. 'How did an Espada get this far into Soul Society without us knowing?' He hid his surprise with a smile. "And who would you be? Aizen's new right hand man. Didn't he tell you what happened to his last one?" Shinji drew his zanpakutou, ready to fight.
"I am number 6 Espada, Hawk. Nothing more. I'm only here to give you a message." Hawk turned his head and moved his hair over to show the Taichou the 6 tattooed on his neck. His eyes never breaking contact with his opponent.
"I thought Grimmjow was number 6." Hirako was confused. Did Aizen get rid of the Espada that were still left over? Or did the ones that survived the war just move up in rank?
"That cat ran out of lives." Hawk smiled and laughed.
So it was the former. Hirako didn't have time for this he needed to get this information to the Soutaichou and Urahara quickly. He was snapped out of his thoughts when the Espada cleared his throat.
"Now then. I was told by Aizen-sama to tell you that a previous threat will be returning soon." Shinji rolled his eyes having already known that Aizen was on the loose. "And also to tell you to expect the both of them to be against Soul Society and that they will see to the fall of the Gotei 13." Shinji was confused to say the least. If the Espada had grown a third head it would have been easier to understand than the riddle he had just been given. Before he could farther question the Espada he opened a Garganta and stepped through into Hueco Mundo.
"Well, there goes my chance to get more info. I'm going to be hearing about this for awhile." Hirako-Taichou sheathed his zanpakutou and resumed his journey to the Soutaichou's office.
More characters to come. Plus Yuzu and Karin's zanpakutous. Give feedback please.