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The Real King	By : NovaAlexandria Category: Bleach > Yaoi - Male/Male > Grimmjow/Ichigo Views: 48386 -:- Recommendations : 4 -:- Currently Reading : 13
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Stumble

The building shook, waking the cubs up and instantly catching Szayel�s attention. He had just managed to doze off despite the pain radiating from his ass from the tube Kurotsuchi had forced up it a few hours ago.

�Mapa?� Hijastro questioned, her voice tinged in fear.

Her little sister whimpered and tried to burrow under him, mewling in fear. The building shook again and he felt a mixture of fear and excitement. Judging by the lack of panicked shouting he doubted Ichigo and Grimmjow was behind the shaking, which led him to guess something big, like a menos grande or maybe an Adjucus, had latched onto his scent and was giving his captors a hard time. If he was lucky it might just do enough damage to give him a chance to escape with the cubs. If not, well, this just might be the final push to make Kurotsuchi decide to force the miscarriage. Not something he wanted to contemplate.

�Into the cage,� he ordered, moving the blankets and cubs into the cage and trying not to think about things like miscarriages.

The cage was small protection, but it would deter smaller debris from landing on them if the ceiling started to give way. Szayel remained on all fours, the two cubs beneath him so if anything did make it through the cage it would hit him before them. It was also the only way the three of them fit into the small cage. He watched the walls like a hawk, looking for any weakness. The cage was rather cramped and wasn�t intended to house someone of his size, but it was the only cover in the room. He could feel the cubs trembling against his stomach and he did the best he could to sooth them.

The door to their cell suddenly opened and the very guard he knew was going to be a problem was smirking at them. Szayel didn�t need telepathy to read what was going through that ones mind.

�With all the commotion and Kurotsuchi-taichou gone for the evening, no one would notice anything amiss if I take a few minutes to entertain myself,� the man chuckled as he took a step into the room, hands going for his belt.

�I won�t let you hurt the cubs,� he declared firmly, bracing himself for a struggle.

The cage, ironically, offered him some protection and cover from the bastard. It was not going to be so easy to pull him out of the mettle mesh box. The guard looked like he was going to say something, probably lewd, but he suddenly stiffened, shortly before a blade erupted from his chest and blood spewed from his lips.

The blade retreated and the guard fell to the floor, laying in a growing pool of crimson as his blood escaped his body. Szayel turned his stunned gaze up from the now dead guard to his rescuer, honestly expecting it to be Kurotsuchi who had so violently dealt with his disobedient soldier, and was held in stunned shock himself at the very pale and slightly shaking visage of a blood splattered Kurosaki Karin.

Karin sighed as she headed off to school, looking up at the person perched on the roof on her home with a sense of sadness. Yylfordt hadn�t moved from the spot he had self exiled himself to unless if it was to take care of any hollow that came close enough to be considered a threat. He was taking the kidnapping of the pack member under his watch fairly badly. In fact, he only ate when Karin jumped up onto the roof to deliver the food to him and ordered him to eat.

She had tried to beat some sense into him, it wasn�t entirely his fault after all. No one had ever predicted anyone would tunnel into the den and he was most certainly not the only one to have been there. Grimmjow, Ichigo and Tesra were just as much at fault for failing to notice the intruders, arguably more so since they had actually been inside the den instead of patrolling outside, where the protective shield prevented anyone from feeling what was going on inside.

Still, the last words spoken between him and the Alpha pair had been scathing and it was eating the Arrancar up. The loss of his brother and niece probably wasn�t helping any, despite what sort of indifferent front the brothers put up when it came to each other. Karin knew family and she knew there was a respect for each other that neither one would ever admit to.

Yylfordt�s standing in the pack seemed to have dropped thanks to this horrifying event. Karin had always stood beneath him when he was around, but now he was slinking past even Tesra and Yuzu, the two Omega�s!, when their paths happened to cross. One advantage was that when she ordered him to eat he obeyed without a fight, but it was still wrong. She didn�t like seeing him so dejected.

�Something bothering you Karin?� Yuzu questioned.

�Just worried about the cubs and Szayel,� she answered half honestly.

She was worried about them as well of course. Each day that went by was another day the trail went colder and harder to follow. Every day that passed meant it would be far less likely they would ever find them. She had watched enough true crime programs to know that.

�Yeah, Ichi-nii should be having his child soon too,� Yuzu added with a mixture of excitement and worry. �I hope they are having good luck and that�s why we haven�t heard a word from them,� Yuzu sighed worriedly and looked up at the sky. �The cubs are really starting to get worried, especially Cachorro. He�s old enough to understand what�s really going on.�

�Yeah,� Karin agreed.

Cachorro was getting depressed, asking for his sisters, Papa and Mapa, and they had to coax him to eat. She had only learned yesterday that he had been sneaking up to the roof at night to sit next to Yylfordt, watching and waiting for any sign of his family returning. She understood. Karin had no desire to go to school, but this was her last year and it was insanely important that she score good grades to get into a good school. Orihime, Chad, Tatsuki and Ishida were searching the city the best they could just encase the kidnappers were still here, when they had time. As humans they had jobs they had to maintain to pay the bills and they all took turns spending the night at the Clinic as an extra level of security in case the kidnappers came back for another go.

Karin sometimes wondered why she bothered going to school right now. By lunch she hadn�t absorbed a single thing, simply stared out the window and fretted. With a sigh, she packed her books and left the grounds, heading to one of the local café�s popular with students when the lunch bell rang. She didn�t even taste her meal, barely ate half of it and was stirring the rest around on her plate with her chopsticks as her mind wandered.

�Yeah, it�s the third explosion this week. They police think it�s gang related and have put out a reward for any information.�

Karin�s ears perked up as she quickly turned around, just in time to see the trio of girls from her school leave the small shop. Sighing, she turned her attention back to her unfinished food before pushing the plate away. Lunch break was almost over and the café was emptying quickly as students returned to school.

�You look like hell Karin,�

Karin turned her attention to the waiter. It was Keigo, one of her brother�s old high school friends. She hadn�t seen him in a while now that she thought about it. They had all been busy with their lives and she honestly didn�t hang out with Ichigo�s former high school friends. Had seen less and less of them as College, University and jobs took over their lives.

�Something going on? Ichigo hasn�t returned my texts in a week,� he complained. �No one has, not even Orihime-chan and she is usually good about saying hi,� he pouted unhappily.

�Yeah, he�s been busy. What were those girls talking about? Something about an explosion?� she questioned concerned.

�There�s been several accidents over the last week; explosions and buildings being damaged,� Keigo answered. �Right now the police are claiming it�s gang related violence but,� Keigo bit his lip and looked around a bit at the now almost empty café before leaning in to speak lowly, �two explosions for sure were just those hollows fighting with some Shinigami. Not Affro-san, but some others I don�t recognize.�

Karin, who had been taking a drink of her pop, nearly spewed it out at Keigo�s revelation. She had forgotten her could see the spiritual world, just like all of her brothers close, or formerly close in some cases, friends.

�Say what?� She demanded in a loud whispered, grabbing Keigo by the front of his apron and pulling him closer. �Are you saying you have seen Shingiami fighting hollows, ones you do not recognize?� she demanded sharply, barely managing to keep her voice quiet enough that the few other patrons couldn�t hear what she was saying.

�Well yeah, but aren�t they suppose to?� Keigo questioned with a shrug.

�True,� she sighed dejectedly. Still�.. �Keigo-san, where did you say you saw them?� she questioned.

Karin scowled at the poorly drawn map on the back of one of the café�s napkins. She really should have gone back to class, but she was so desperate for any hope that she just couldn�t ignore the chance to do something. Besides, it wasn�t like she had been absorbing any of the information the teachers had been trying to cram into her head anyhow.

�I am beginning to regret this idea. No wonder the police think it�s gang related,� she scowled as she looked at the very rundown neighbourhood. It had taken her an hour on the train followed by a twenty minute walk to get here. She wasn�t even entirely sure what town this technically was.

She was getting a good number of looks from the few people she did pass, most of them sizing her up as potential prey. Her crisp and clean school uniform really stood out here. Fortunately, she was one tuff nut and the way she walked showed her confidence. She could kick half of these losers asses on a bad day; sparing with an Arrancar partner and running after hollow hybrid children sort of helped a lot there.

�Still, not a place I would want to walk down at night,� she mused looking about the rundown neighbourhood.

She was about to turn about and head back the way she came when she heard it, the distinctive echoing cry of a low level hollow. She changed direction and marched towards it, forcing herself not to run, not because she was afraid of such a small fry but because she didn�t want to draw anymore attention to herself than necessary from the inhabitants of this run down neighbourhood.

She rounded the corner just in time to watch three Shinigami pin down a hollow with kido before finishing it off. She did her best to look straight and not let her eyes slid their way as she walked past them, acting as oblivious as possible to their presence as any normal human would be.

�Chu, damn things are becoming a royal nuisance. This is the fourth one today,� one of them complained.

�It�s been getting worse too,� another snarled in annoyance.

�Tell me about it. Hopefully this will get cleared up soon. I didn�t sign up for this sort of thing,� the third added.

That was all the three said before they leaped back up into the air and out of Karin�s hearing range. As far as she was concerned, it was enough. It was more of a lead than any of them had had yet and she knew just the person to bring it too.

She ran as soon as she was in a safer neighbourhood and bounced impatiently as she waited for the train, bouncing almost even more as the hour long ride back seemed to take an eternity. As soon as she was within local calling distance she pulled her phone out and quickly dialled the number for home. Long distance would chew her minutes up in seconds and she didn�t have any cash on her to buy more if she ran out. She could not afford to run out.

�Hello?� an uncertain voice answered the phone hesitantly.

�Tesra, get Yylfordt on the line now. I don�t care if you have to pry his self reproaching carcass from the roof with a crowbar, just get him on the phone,� she ordered.

�I�ll try,� Tesra offered.

She waited for several tense minutes before she heard his voice come onto the line.

�Um, hello?� his voice sounded rather uncertain. Neither Arrancar were that familiar nor accustom to using this kind of technology.

�Yylfordt, it�s Karin. Do you know where the train station is?� she demanded.

�I think so. Why?� he questioned confused.

�Meet me there ASAP. My train should be arriving in about fifteen minutes,� she ordered.

�I can�t leave my post. Someone had to protect the remaining cubs.� His voice sounded more dead than protesting.

�If you�re that worried about them than get Tesra and Yuzu to bring them over to Urahara-san�s shop. It�s arguably safer than the house anyway with dad helping at the hospital for the day. Yuzu should be home from school any minute. Just meet me at the train station, I may have found a lead but I am going to need your nose, and muscle,� she ordered excitedly.

She could practically feel him stiffen on the other side of the phone.

�What makes you think you found something?� he questioned in a strained voice.

�I came across three Shinigami I didn�t recognize bitching about an increase in local hollow activity. They said they fought four alone today. Even with Ichi-nii flaring himself around like an all you can eat buffet we never saw that many in a day. Something must be drawing them there,� she answered.

Silence on the other end of the line.

�I will be there as soon as I can, after I see to the rest of the packs safety.�

�Alright. Oh, Yylfordt, since you don�t have a gigai, make sure you grab a hat and a jacket that covers your chest. As long as your hollow heritage is hidden and you keep your reiatsu suppressed the Shinigami shouldn�t be able to tell you aren�t just another human.�

�I�ll see you in a bit,� he promised, a bit of life in his voice.

Karin hit the end call button and began to chew nervously on her lip as she put her phone away. She hoped her intuition was right. It would go a long way to restore Yylfordt�s confidence if he managed to be the one to find the missing members of their pack. She missed the old confident him that wasn�t afraid to show her the right end of a katana, who appreciated it when she joined him on his patrols around the den on the nights she didn�t have school, and mountains of homework. It was only recently she had really started to notice how incredibly handsome he actually was, for a hollow. And smooth too, did she mention how smooth he was?

The train arrived and she hopped off. She sat on the bench to wait for him, but after a minute she found she just couldn�t sit still and started to pace. There was a small window before the train going back the way she came would arrive for loading. She didn�t doubt Yylfordt could catch up to it, but seeing a �flying human� might make for some interesting, and unwanted, press. He would have to bring her since he had no idea where the place was and she doubted he would be able to follow the instructions that well. For all the time they had spent in the Living Realm, her Arrancar pack mates were not that familiar with its workings, with the exception of Szayel who still retained his human memories.

�What was Keigo doing in that neighbourhood anyway?� she suddenly questioned herself curiously as she thought about where she had been and how much of a wimp Keigo was. She was lost in that thought when a hand suddenly rested on her shoulder.

Karin reacted quickly, gabbing the offending limb and jerking it around to toss the body over her shoulder, or at least that had been her plan. Yylfordt was considerably stronger than she was and he just raised an eye at her antics as he easily spun her around to face him.

�Oh, it�s you, good, come on,� she grabbed his hand and dragged him back onto the train before it could depart.

He let her do so since it would have been impossible for her to force him if he didn�t want to go. He did hesitate at the door though, uncertainty in his posture. It only got worse as the after school crowd boarded as well, making the train rather packed and the Arrancar very uncomfortable. Karin pulled out her phone and held it to her ear, but didn�t turn it on.

�The rest of the pack is at Urahara-san?� she questioned.

�Yes. He says you may be on to something and he was going to let Yoruichi-san know and send her after our trail,� a pause, �why were you so far from your school?� he questioned accusingly.

Karin filled him on how her day had gone and what had lead her so far out of town. The fact she had her phone to her ear spared her from many odd looks. He listened, frequently fiddling with the hat on his head and scowling equally between the press of people and his reflection, no doubt displeased with his current wardrobe. One thing the brothers definitely shared was a very vain attitude on their appearance. The hat had to be uncomfortable sitting on the fragments of his hollow mask.

Karin kept his hand in hers as it kept it off of his Zanpakuto, and the train free of a sudden large slew of dead people. She tired to keep him between herself and the corner of the car they were riding in since no one could actually see him and she swore he was ready to kill the next person who jostled into him. This resulted in her being pressed against him in the rather crowded train and the heat from his body made her all to awear of how close they were standing.

�Easy,� she murmured half an hour later. �We are halfway there,� she assured him, giving his hand a reassuring squeeze. He was positively shaking against her in a desperate bid to not lose his cool at the crowded conditions of so many �lesser creatures.� And heaven forbid, human sweat, dirt and germs were getting on his clothing in the cramped quarters.

�How do you humans live like this?� he questioned in disgust.

�Practice. The train will start to empty soon as more people get off,� she assured him.

�I am going to need an hour long shower and new wardrobe when this is over,� he grouched.

Karin couldn�t help but to smile.

The train did empty as they got closer to their stop. She led him off the train and down the street, but didn�t release his hand, or rather, couldn�t. He had her hand in a damn near death grip to stop himself from doing something rash. In all honestly, she didn�t mind.

�This way. Remember, as long as you keep everything suppressed and hidden the Shinigami should think you are human. The didn�t even spare me a second glance as I walked right by them so I doubt they will look at us if we see them so long as we act casual.�

�I got it. Just lead the way.�

Karin led him down the streets, retracing her steps to where she had spotted the Shinigami and hollow earlier. She could tell the instant he picked something up because he suddenly stiffened beside her and rose his head to the wind. She watched him for a moment before he suddenly started leading her instead of the other way around.

�Yylfordt?� she questioned, trying to keep the excitement out of her voice.

�There is definitely a pregnant hollow around here, one who�s markers are damn near gone,� he answered, his own voice quivering in excitement.

�Can you tell if it�s Szayel?� she questioned.

�No, but how many could there possibly be with markers that far gone?� he questioned, excitement clear in his voice.

She suddenly found herself being pressed against his side as they walked down the street. His entire body was quivering and she had a feeling he was holding onto her to keep himself from doing something rash. She let him lead her through the streets and even leaned more firmly against him so that to any outsiders it would look like nothing more than two lovers walking down the street. She blushed a bit as that thought crossed her mind, a blush that deepened when she realized the thought didn�t bother her as much as it should have.

�Stupid teenager hormones,� she grouched. �And at a time like this too. I thought I was immune to such stupid things, yet here I am now thinking about crap like how handsome he is, or how warm he is against my side when I should be thinking about the cubs,� she berated herself harshly.

�There, that building,� Yylfordt pointed out a large brick building behind a brick wall complete with an iron wrought gate and barbwire all along the fence.

Karin forced her teenage libido to take a hike for now, with a promise to return to the subject later, and looked over to the sign beside the gate as they walked passed it.

�Looks like an old, abandoned mental hospital. Makes sense,� she mused as she forced him to keep walking pass the building, doing their best not to show any interest in anything other than each other.

To other humans she must have looked silly leaning on the air, but other humans wasn�t who they were interested in fooling with their act.

�There are at least four Shinigami on patrol,� he murmured into her ear, causing her to shiver as his breath ghosted over the shell. �I can see two of them.�

�This must be the place. Why else would there be Shinigami guarding a human building?� she said firmly, once more forcing her libido back under control.

She tightened her grip on him as she felt him tremble slightly and kept them moving. She could feel his muscles coiled and ready to spring into action, but now would not be a good time to expose themselves. There was no knowing how many were in the building, or what sort of traps there might be. While she had no doubt that Yylfordt could take out the trash, hell she probably could, if Ichigo was right in his suspicions than there was fully powered Taichou in there too, and that was pushing it for him and was so far out of her league that it didn�t even bear mentioning.

Karin didn�t stop moving them along until several blocks away and out of any potential sight and mind.

�Okay, we found them, now what?� she questioned.

�From what I could detect there were at least 4 Shinigami outside, and maybe a dozen inside. They are weak, barely even strong enough to be considered prey. Kurotsuchi was there too,� he snarled. �I will never forget the taste of his foul reiatsu,� his body shivered against hers.

Kurotsuchi had done a great many things to Yylfordt, things Karin never wanted to know about but could map on the scars left on his body. She knew the shiver was in as much fear as it was in anger.

�He has to be keeping appearances up in Soul Society or we would have heard about it. If he were to leave what do you think our chances of a prison break are?� she questioned.

�Without him, we would have no problems breaking in and out,� he answered. �As long as the cubs are near Szayel finding them won�t be an issue. Even if they are not we should be able to detect their unique reiatsu signature. The real issue might be any traps they got set. He is a cleaver fucker. Even if he does leave his subordinates might call him back if we attack,� he pointed out.

�What we need is some sort of diversion. Something to keep them busy while we sneak in,� Karin mused.

They pondered in silence, the sun slowly setting and more eyes looking her way and sizing her up as dusk fell and the more seedy characters took to the streets. She never noticed the locals eyeing her up as prey though. With Yylfordt at her side they were so far below a threat that bacteria was more dangerous to her right now than they were.

�I don�t suppose that lesser hollows would obey your command, would they?� she suddenly questioned.

He looked down at her, silently asking her to elaborate.

�They were bitching about an increase in attacks. What if a small pack attacked them? They are pretty weak. Send in just enough to keep them annoyed and distracted without needing to call in reinforcements. Just enough to be a pain and keep them chasing their own tails.�

�While it is a good idea, I don�t want to risk one getting past them and harming the cubs,� he tossed her idea aside before staring at her contemplatively. �On the other hand, I could easily keep them busy and running around like a bunch of idiots while you slip in and out.�

Karin looked up at him in surprise. Ichigo would have never considered, let alone consented, to the idea of putting her in harms way, and the trust Yylfordt was showing her to do this made her puff up with pride.

�Can you narrow down where he might be in the building so I am not spending so much time floundering while looking for them?� she questioned.

�Easily in the lower levels, somewhere near the back. Once you get closer you should be able to track their reiatsu. You are far better at sensing things like that than Ichigo-sama.�

�True enough,� she admitted, puffing up even more at his praise.

�Here, I brought this,� he opened his jacket and handed her the simple katana she had been training with over the last few years.

Karin took the blade and hid it under her jacket for now. They were still going to want to appear as normal humans and normal humans generally did not carry around visible weapons.

�I am going to go into my reserreccion. In that form they might confuse me for just an ordinary hollow. If they know they have an Arrancar on their steps they will definitely call for backup.�

Now that perked Karin up. She had never seen his reserreccion and she was eager to see it. With a plan in place they walked back towards the building, once more with her nestled against him as if they were lovers so they could speak lowly without drawing attention to themselves.

This time Yylfordt didn�t detect Kurotsuchi�s presence, indicating he had probably returned to Soul Society for now. He led her around the brick wall until he was as close as could be to the scent he was tracking without giving the game up. The Shinigami on guard had barely glanced at them.

�Go,� he suddenly ordered as he leaped into the air and brought them down on the other side of the fence.

Karin ran towards the building as an explosion of reiatsu rushed out behind her. A red beam of light flew past her and slammed into the wall, giving her a way inside without needing to worry about doors and covering her running figure from sight with a wall of dust. Although, with the storm Yylfordt was creating she doubted anyone was looking at the ground with him being so loud in the air.

She could hear the cries of alarm rise up as Yylfordt started to attack the building. The ground shuddered as if something heavy hit it and she had to force herself to keep running down the halls, drawing the sword as she did so. She found a stairwell and flung a leg over the railing, sliding down to prevent any noise that running down the stairs might create, not to mention it was faster, saved energy, and was, maybe, just a little bit fun.

She finally picked up the reiatsu signature of the cubs on the last floor and met her first true obstacle, a fully secured and locked door complete with key code requirements.

�Well shit,� she cursed as she glared at the keypad and solid door that no simple katana was going to get through. Oh why didn�t she have any nifty energy attacks she could use to bust through the door?

The building shook and nearly threw her off of her feet. Yylfordt was defiantly making his presence known. The light on the door suddenly turned green and the next thing she knew she was staring at the surprised face of a male Shinigami.

She didn�t think, only reacted. She lunged forward, her blade going into the surprised man�s chest with ease. Blood bubbled out of his mouth as he continued to stare at her in surprised, before sliding off of her blade and landing boneless on the ground at her feet. Karin just stared at the dead body and her bloody blade in numb shock.

She had just killed someone. She felt her hands begin to shake, but another rumble of the building broke her out of her stunned thoughts. She stumbled over the body, trying not to look at it as she ran down the white hall towards where she could hear the whimpers of frightened cubs, adrenaline keeping her moving and preventing her from dwelling on what she had just done.

Another Shingiami blocked her path, this one with his back turned to her and seemed unaware of her presence. He was more interested in whatever was behind the door he was opening. Good, maybe she could knock this one out. She had no real desire to kill anyone.

�With all the commotion and Kurotsuchi-taichou gone for the evening, no one would notice anything amiss if I take a few minutes to entertain myself,� the man chuckled lewdly.

That was all Karin needed to hear, although the sound of one of the cubs whimpering certainly helped spur her on. She rushed forward and thrust her sword through the mans back before pulling it out. Blood splashed on her face and hands as she it sprayed from her victim, who fell to the floor lifelessly, thankfully face down so she wouldn�t have too look at this ones unseeing eyes. She stared at her stained hands in shock and felt the need to be sick.

The room shaking again broke both Szayel and Karin out of their respective states of surprise and shock. Karin ran up to them, her hands still shaking and her skin still pale, but she was moving and that was a good thing. It was going to be tuff dealing with two frightened cubs while they escaped, let alone three.

�Here, take her,� Szayel ordered as he handed her the little girl. �Hijastro, stay close, okay?� he ordered his daughter.

�Yes, Mapa,�

He pulled the blankets around his body to cover his nudity from Karin�s eyes and took the sword from Karin�s shaking fingers before she hurt herself, or one of them. She gave it up without a fight or any sign of protest.

�Do you know the way out?� he questioned.

�Yeah, this way.� Her voice was shaky, but she was still thinking. That was a good sign.

He followed her out, making sure Hijastro stayed close by his side.

�What�s going on?� he questioned as she led him down the hall and to the stairwell.

�Yylfordt is making a fuss while we get out,� she answered, her voice shaky but clear.

�What about everyone else?� he questioned.

�There is no one else,� she answered.

He almost stopped moving in shock. He did notice the other body on their way out the door leading to the unsecured corridors, also cleanly ran through. Karin had done a pretty good job actually, but he decided to hold off his praise for later as it clearly bothered her at the moment, as made clear by the way she shivered and averted her gaze from the unseeing, glazed over in death eyes that stared up, a look of shock still on the dead man�s face.

She led them up the stairs and through several corridors before stopping before a hole in the wall that had clearly been created by a cero. Up in the air Yylfordt was in his reserreccion, charging groups of Shingiami like the bull he resembled and scattering them without actually trying to kill them. He was acting like some dimwitted hollow and the idiots were falling for it. Who knew his brother could actually be so clever?

�Amazing,� Karin breathed as she took in his brother released form, momentarily forgetting about the men she had killed.

�Yylfordt!� Szayel shouted up to his brother.

That caught everyone�s attention. The moment the Shinigami foolishly took their eyes off of the hollow they were fighting to stare down at the escaping prisoners in shock, Yylfordt returned to his normal state and finished the fools in a single burst of Sonido and precise slashes of his sword. He landed before them before the first body even had time to start falling.

�We need to move quickly,� Yylfordt snapped, grabbing Karin on one side of him and Szayel on the other. Both passengers held tightly onto a cub each as the world blurred. The spot they were standing dissolved under their feet under a cloud of purple poison and their retreat was followed by the freakish cry of a demented baby.

�So close,� he whimpered.

Szayel shivered as his brother raced away from the prison he had been held in. He had first handed experience with that poison and it was not something he wanted to repeat, even more so for the cubs to ever experience. It would definitely have killed Karin.

�That�. thing is after us!� Karin noted, a hint of panic in her voice.

�You! I am going to dissect you in ways you could only dream of!� Kurotsuchi�s infuriated voice rang out way too close behind them. �I am going to return you both to a world of pain unlike anything you have felt before!�

Both Karin and Szayel felt Yylfordt shiver against them. For all that Kurotsuchi had done to him, the bastard had done far, far more to his older brother before the Alpha pair had rescued him. Burdened as he was with four passengers, Yylfordt couldn�t hope to outrun the furious taichou with his Bankai on their asses. They all knew it.

�When I get my hands on you the cub is gone. As for the other two, I will let you watch while I slice them open and take their organs out!� Kurotsuchi screeched. �You will all be in a world of such ERK!�

Kurotsuchi�s rant suddenly died off and the furious mutated caterpillar thing on their tail suddenly ceased chasing them.

�You should be lucky I am the one that caught up to you first because Ichigo is so beyond pissed,� a female voice taunted.

Yylfordt finally stopped running and set them down. Szayel looked behind them to see their pursuer imbedded in a wall with Yoruichi hovering in the air not far away, a look of rage on the usually laid back woman�s face.

�Stay out of this,� Kurotsuchi snarled at her.

�If I were you I would start running,� Yoruichi declared coldly. �He doesn�t hide his presence very well, especially when he�s this pissed.�

Even as weakened as he was, Szayel could still taste the furious reiatsu of the Alpha pair. They were closing in rapidly. Ichigo�s reiatsu tasted so much like H�tsu�s right now that it sent a shiver of fear up his spine.

�Papa?� Hijastro questioned, looking excitedly in the direction she could detect her father coming from.

Kurotsuchi was also looking that way now too, and unlike the rest of them, his face showed nothing more than abject terror.

�This isn�t the end of this!� he snarled before slamming something onto the ground that burst into smoke. When it cleared, he was gone.

Ichigo and Grimmjow arrived a second later, both of them in their released forms, no doubt for faster travel, and radiating so much fury that it was a wonder Szayel could maintain consciousness in his weakened state. In fact, Ichigo looked more like a hollow than a Shinigami right now; his face covered in a horned mask, his hair exceedingly long and his skin pale white. It was hard to tell through the thick waves of hair, but Szayel almost swore there was even a hole going through his chest.

�Papa!� Hijastro cried and wormed her way out of Szayel�s limp grasp.

�Hijastro!� Ichigo cried out in a very gravel and hollow like voice, turning about and catching his daughter as she jumped into his arms.

Now that Ichigo had turned about Szayel could see the hole going through his chest, as well as the markings on said chest. He had only seen this form once before from the recorded images of when Ichigo had fought Ulquiorra. Unlike then though, Ichigo was clearly in control of his faculties. It was almost as if the Alpha was letting H�tsu use his body since the hollow part of his soul had been drained with the pregnancy. The transformed state didn�t stay for long, and melted away to reveal the hybrid in his bankai form as he held tightly onto his daughter.

Karin let her charge go and the little girl was in her Mapa�s arms so fast he almost didn�t see her move. Grimmjow held onto his daughter as tightly as Ichigo did, nuzzling her and just taking in her presence, assuring himself his offspring was safe.

�Ichi-nii,� Karin sighed in relief, catching her brother�s attention.

�Karin�� whatever Ichigo was about to say never emerged from his lips as he took in the blood splattered on his sister and her slight shaking from the adrenaline and just overall situation, not to mention registered the fact she was here.

�I killed them,� she said in a relatively dead voice, one Szayel recognized as the onset of shock. �I� I just reacted. The door opened and I stabbed him.� Karin was trembling now. �And the second one�.� she couldn�t finish.

Ichigo moved towards her, but he already had a rather large hysterical cub in his arms and thus had no spare one for her as there was no way that Hijastro was going to let her father go anytime soon.

�Karin,� Szayel called her attention to him.

She looked at him with haunted eyes.

�They were hurting me, and would have hurt the cubs given a chance. The one in the doorway to our cell was about to really hurt me while making the cubs watch. You stopped him before he could. Given a chance he would have hurt you too in ways that I have no desire to mention. Even if you hadn�t killed them, Kurotsuchi would have, probably in very long and painful ways, for letting us escape. They were soldiers, they knew what they were getting into,� he assured her in a calm voice, deliberately letting the blanket he had wrapped around him fall a bit to reveal some of the damage Kurotsuchi had inflected on his body.

Karin still shook a bit, but she seemed slightly calmer and some of her emotion had changed from self torment to anger. Yylfordt came up behind her and pulled her against his chest before whispering something in her ear. Szayel didn�t catch what it was, but he saw her relax a bit more into his brothers grasp, and was that a hint of a blush?

�C�mon. Let�s get back home.� Yoruichi broke the gathering up. �We need to get word to Soul Society about what went down here. I�ll stay here and make sure that�.�

A large explosion resounded in the distance, lighting up the night sky with a bright orange.

�Shit,� she cursed.

No one had any doubt that the explosion had come from the lab, destroying any evidence that might have been there. Szayel was not surprised, he would have done the same. He had actually been expecting as much to happen.

�If it�s not too much to ask, I would really like to go home, and have a shower,� Szayel requested with a shiver, recalling all too well the feeling of unfamiliar and invasive hands, and equipment, touching and probing his body in intimate and painful ways, sometimes even both at the same time. He had some really good painkillers he could really use right about now.

�Yeah, let�s get out of here,� Ichigo agree, removing the strap from around Hijastro�s wings with a slice from Zangetsu before adjusting his grip on his daughter.

�I knew you would come Papa,� Hijastro purred happily.

�Always,� Ichigo agreed.

They traveled back to Karkura town via Sonido. As tired as he was, he didn�t even protest as he was carried by Grimmjow. His markers desperately needed to be refreshed. Yylfordt carried Karin, who seemed rather comfortable in his arms and had seemed to drift off, no doubt burnt out now that her adrenaline had run out. It was not a bad idea actually, and Szayel followed her example, held safe in the arms of one of the Alpha pair.

Welcome home Blackstorm, and what better welcome home thing is there to see than an update?

So, who all expected Karin and Yylfordt to be the rescuing pair? I had to remind myself this wasn�t Prize of Victory and not have her going in kicking ass and taking names. In this fict she is still a �school girl� and didn�t grow up in Aizen�s dark future. I thinking killing people would definitely bother her.

This was another little side pairing thing I only thought up like, a few weeks ago. I had no plans on keeping Tesra and Yylfordt together as a couple, they only mated under duress and Tesra is a little too soft and submissive for Yylfordts taste.

Speaking of Prize of Victory, the interlude between part 1 and 2 by Black Fox is up on adult fan. bleachDOTadultfanfictionDOTnet/story.php?no=600012768 It focuses on Renji and Nel and has tons of sex.
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