Here is 16, and 4 of 5 on my chapter before updates count. I'm sure you have all sort of guessed that the plot has something to do with the Kato girl, as well as giving me filler for my Unohana chapters, but here we go, plot started rolling last chapter and now is speeding down the hill. Analogy time over, her's your next chapter.
Chapter 16...The Night
It was dark in the hospital room. There were two beds, and a little bin on the door that held patient charts. Two heartbeat monitors were in the room making steady sounds. A line of light would brighten the room for a few seconds every few minutes as the hybrids in charge of this case would make sure there were no changes. They'd finally injected the more violent of the two cases with a sleeping serum the hybrids used on each other. It was the only sedative strong enough to put the poor girl out. With her unconscious, they were finally able to set up two Ivs. One giving her blood and the other feeding her sugars and proteins so she'd start producing blood herself. On the other side of the room, the male patient rolled in his feverish sleep. Light floods the room, and a hazard suited hybrid stepped in to check Ivs on both patients. The door shuts quietly behind him. In the silence that followed, only broken by the beeping of the monitors, the girl patient sat up. Her head turns left, then right, and she stands. Needles and cords fall to the floor, and the beeping monitor beside her goes code blue. Wordlessly, the girl opens the window, and drops out.
It was approximately 1:45 in the morning when Unohana was woken. She dresses and hurries to the scene. The only signs left of the girl was the few drops of blood on the floor and the mess on her sheets from where she'd been sweating blood. Another few drops of blood outside below the window where the girl had jumped out, and then nothing. Unohana gave the word to set an alert, and then released her zanpakuto. She would fly on Minazuki to search. She stepped on to the manta ray's back and it flys off as the wood blocks in fourth are being tapped, waking everyone in 4th. Hell butterflies are sent around to the Captains to have them send out search parties. Particularly in and around 4th and 6th. Groups of 2 and 3 tired Shinigami and hybrids walk through the streets below the Captain and her zanpakuto.
In a quiet alley, hides a girl. She was crouched down, holding her head. Beside her was the zanpakuto she'd retrieved from her division. Her zanpakuto's voice was telling her to kill. She was confused, because she had a normally peaceful spirit. She didn't want to hurt people. But still, against her wishes, her hand gripped the sword, and pulled it from it's sheathe. The voice was screaming at her by now. She stood, her eyes blank. She walks forward from the darkened alley. She was in the outskirts of 7, where she'd hidden. She knew most of the search parties where in and around 4th through 6th. But she knew the would expand soon. She ducks back into the alley as a shadow passed by. The 4th Captain. She slipped quietly away, and back to 6th. She hides every time a patrol goes through. She sneaks into the division offices. Now that she had no control of her body the command was no longer just to kill. It was to kill a certain person. She tucks into the shadows as that very person left their office. She slips out silently, following them. And just when they are not paying attention, she strikes.
Blood spatters to the ground. It's not his. Not the Lieutenant she'd been told to kill. It was hers. The redheaded man looked just as shocked as her. He grabbed her, and called for 4th. He puts his hands over the cut he'd made across her stomach. Then he recognizes her. And looks confused. Just as she's about to fight the voices in her head and speak, to apologize, searing agony hits her head. She clutches the sides of her face screaming. Her body jolts, and she goes limp.
Renji checks the girls pulse. It was nonexistent. She was dead. Blood dripped from behind her eyes. When Unohana arrives, he is told to carefully remove his clothing so not to get blood on himself. He does so, changing into a fresh shihakusho and goes back to the scene. He gives his report and is dismissed.
Hours later, Unohana is autopsying the body. Everywhere she looked the girl had no anomalies. Except for the slash to the gut there was no reason she'd died. Finally, Unohana cuts open the girl's head. She had to leap backwards quickly. A sickly looking mass flowed from the girl skull. Her brain had for some reason completely liquified. Whatever the reason, she wouldn't find the answers in the dead girl. It was in the next ill person.
The all clear is given, and a butterfly is sent to all of the Captain's and Lieutenant's with the information Unohana had uncovered. Soi Fon shuddered. It was sickening to think that what had started as a fever ended up that way. She returned to her office, and shut off the lights after making sure things were in perfect order. Grimmjow was leaning against the door when she turned around. She didn't want to look at him after that morning. "What is it Jeagerjacks?" she asks. She stares at him coldly. This of course was the part where he said he'd merely been turned on by the violence, and that it wouldn't happen again. And that was probably for the best. But that didn't mean it didn't suck. Years without a partner is incredibly lonely. Especially when that potential partner was an incredibly sexy blue haired panther.
"Wanted to apologize for my behavior as of late. I'll try to make a better expression," he said. Something about his voice...and the fact that he'd said a word wrong. Her Lieutenant had been drinking. He looked for the most part sober now, and it wasn't her business what he did after hours. She nodded. "And this morning... yer pretty when yer pissed," he says, stumbling out the door. He was gone before she could bring herself to move to the door. Stupid hybrid. Even in the midst of a strange event, that bastard managed to make her heart flutter. And that was something she just couldn't have. She beat down the feelings that had risen and went to her room for the night, locking herself in.
Ok guys I had been hoping to get these out sooner and I know you are all probably upset at me but a lots been going on. I'm going to hopefully have a little more time now so we will see about updating more often. Anyways that's all for this chapter.