Ulquiorra: Nocturnal Evolution Epoch | By : Kisuke.LikeABoss Category: Bleach > Het - Male/Female Views: 1835 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0 |
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Chapter 7: Admissions
"The extinction of your life can be arranged," another hollow replied.
"Don't you want to torture me later?" came a high pitched child-like sound. "Then shhhhhhhh, and do it for me, Cat."
"Ahh, Nelliel Tu Odelschwanck, thank you for coming so quickly," Urahara told the stunning beauty. Since the demise of Sōsuke Aizen, it was Nelliel that took control over Hueco Mundo, and made an alliance with Soul Society.
"Your man said that it was urgent and it would help to restore Ichigo, so of course we would come," the teal haired Arrancar told him.
"Yeah, I want to finish what we started! I'm telling you I can take the little shit now!" this coming from the newly named Tres Espada, Grimmjow Jaegerjaquez.
"Please, I'd like to destroy this excrement, Nelliel-sama," Tier Halibel, the Segunda Espada, pleaded with the Primera.
"Nooooo!" whined the child voice of Nelliel as she grabbed a hold of the Tres by his neck and smashed his face to her oversized bosom. "This is my cat, and I love it!" She stuck her tongue out at the Segunda for good measure.
Tier Halibel just sighed as she watched the Tres' eyes roll in the back of his head. She wasn't sure if he was enjoying his entrapment in the Primera's chest or trying to gather air to breathe. They all entered the vast training cellar. When Urahara stepped to his side the three Arrancar's caught sight of the only Espada they've not be able to account for, in over a year. Nelliel and Tier immediately dropped to their knees, while Grimmjow had to be pulled down by his woman.
Ulquiorra looked in astonishment at these creatures, bowing before him. Both women used to be his superior, so he was taken a back slightly at the sight. Grimmjow on the other hand, he figured he could do without.
"We didn't know what had happened to you Ulquiorra-sama," Nelliel spoke first. "When Nnoitra attained the Cuarto ranking, we assumed you had perished. Let me apologize, for the miscalculation."
"Please stop," Ulquiorra requested. "I have not led you; I am not your commander. So don't hold any tribute for me. When this is all done, I want nothing but to stay by my woman's side."
"You mean… you don't want to rule what is rightfully yours?" Tier asked of the Cero.
"When I think on it, I wouldn't be the Cero if not for the woman anyway. I will not return to Las Noches, and will not bring her back there," Ulquiorra affirmed. "Nelliel, Hueco Mundo and Las Noches have been in your care this whole time; I see no reason to change that."
"Yes, Ulquiorra-sama," Nelliel answered.
"And don't call me –sama, I haven't earned it," he replied.
Urahara stepped back into the conversation, after the Espada's made their observations. He explained to them what it was they would need to do in order to get Orihime back. "This is the only way she will return Cifer-san."
"I still do not like the idea, it will cause her sorrow. And I would be to blame for causing it, once again," the Cero Espada made this clear. "But you say this will release her from the Reiō?" The shop keeper nodded.
"And bringing her back will help Ichigo's powerlessness?" Nelliel asked of the scientist. Again he nodded.
"Then when do we leave?! I'm sick of this place already!" Grimmjow complained.
"One of you should remain in Hueco Mundo; if we should fail, there will be chaos there. And the agreement you have with Soul Society could crumple," Ulquiorra stated. The four Espada's agreed to have Tier Halibel remain and guard Las Noches and Hueco Mundo.
After Tier Halibel left for Hueco Mundo, Kisuke explained that he needed a few days to finish working out the details of their entrance into Reiōkyū. He explained the extreme danger they would face once they did get inside. But most importantly, they would need to make their way immediately to Reiō daidairi, where the Soul King himself resided. That would be where he would have Orihime. The Cero wanted to leave straightaway but Kisuke told him, he needed patience; the Reiō would do nothing to harm Orihime, seeing as she is the soul of his daughter.
While the days passed for Urahara to gather the rest of his intelligence, and the final preparations for this coup d'état, the Espada practiced in the basement of the candy shop. Grimmjow reveled in his new confidence as the Tres Espada, continually challenging Ulquiorra to combat, to which the Cero would only occasionally let himself be baited into. It was Nelliel that soundly put the panther in his place, with her quick reflexes and calculating temptations.
Finally the day arrived, and they were as ready as they would ever be. Urahara told them where to go and what to do, it was up to them once getting there to implement this plan successfully. He handed them each modified Inflatable Gigais.
"You can use these to propel yourselves to the Soul King's Residence once you're inside Reiōkyū," he told them. "The last thing I need to give you is an injection." He smiled broadly and pierced the Cero Espada first with a syringe. He pulled a large quantity of blood from him.
Scowling he yelled, "What was the purpose of that!?"
The Geta-boshi then divided the blood he retrieved into two new needles. "I did tell you before, the only way into Reiōkyū, is with the permission of the Soul King, or the Ōken." At the boy's nod, he continued, "Well this is the Ōken." He pointed to the hypodermics he just filled. "You have Inoue-san's essence in you, so you can enter without much effort. However for the other two, they would need a displacement of that spirit for themselves to enter." He proceeded to infuse the other hollows with the essence enriched blood of the Cero. "It will stay in the blood for three days; that is how long you have before you will be rejected by the Soul King's Realm," he paused for a moment then said. "And when I say rejected, I mean your existence will be nullified." He ignored the paranoid faces of the two hollows. "Nelliel and Grimmjow will use my reverse Chōkaimon. Cifer-san will enter Soul Society through Yoruichi's Senkaimon, and head to Shiba Kūkaku's residence. There he can use the Kakaku Hō, to catapult himself to the Reiōkyū omote sandō. This is the path you must cross to get into Reiō daidairi."
"Why don't we all use this Chōkaimon" asked Ulquiorra.
"The Royal Guard can open up a Chōkaimon, to send someone directly to the human world, and use the same gate to send the person back, but to do so require syncing the arrival and departure times," Urahara explained. "Since Nelliel and Grimmjow have a restricted amount of time, it's easier for me to sync their times. It will also support their return to the human world without the fear of the penalty of nullification."
Ulquiorra gave the shop keeper a weary glance. After spending the last few weeks with this man, he learned when Urahara wasn't telling him everything. This was one of those times. Both men looked at each other. One looked with jubilance and merriment, the other with cold calculation. Without any time left to contemplate what he could be hiding, an understanding passed between the two men. All were ready now, and Ulquiorra was sent off into the Senkaimon that appeared before the group.
Kuchiki Byakuya and Suì-Fēng were met by captains Ukitake Jūshirō and Shunsui Kyōraku, when they arrived in Seireitei.
"Jūshirō… You were the one that spent some time with her, did you of all people, not have even an idea about her lineage?" asked Shunsui.
"I noted that she was a remarkable fighter and her ability even more so. She brought out a new side to my Lieutenant, Kuchiki Rukia, but as far as what was hidden beneath I am just as shocked as all of you," Ukitake answered his best friend. Orihime was taken to Yamamoto Genryūsai Shigekuni, where the captains discussed how they would go about returning her to her father. All were in agreement that this was an extraordinary situation; they never had to deal with before. There was no precedent on how to handle it.
"I think we have time, I'd like to take her to my lab for an… examination," it was Kurotsuchi Mayuri who was the first to speak, on the subject.
"Absolutely not!" Yamamoto Sou-Taichō voiced his disapproval. "There will be little to no further contact with the weaver princess. The Royal Guard has already notified 1st division, the Soul King will retrieve her once she is taken to Sōkyoku Hill. Is that understood!?" The captains concurred, and Orihime was taken to the familiar site. It was Jūshirō who carried the young woman, once there she was lifted from his arms and taken away to Reiōkyū.
Orihime awoke in a large bedroom. She had never dreamed of such a room in her entire life. She looked around trying to discern whether this was all her imagination. She used her hand to pinch the side of her thigh, hard. 'Nope, not a dream,' she thought. She tried to lift her body from the bed, but found that she couldn't. She felt as if she weighed 10 times her current weight. "Urahara-san, what's going on?" she called for her sensei.
"Daughter…" a voice rang through the room.
Orihime sucked in a breath. 'Who was that?' she wondered. "Where am I?" she demanded.
"Daughter, you are finally back where you belong," the voice said. "Your mother will be with you shortly, she has waited far too long for you."
The weaver princess began to recall the story Urahara told her days ago, about the princess that the Soul King had to give up. 'Why was he calling her his daughter?' she thought. She was his great-great-granddaughter. "I'm not your daughter, Reiō. I am a decedent of Takako," she tried to plead with him.
"You are the soul of my daughter, Orihime. You have her essence within you. I know who you are," he told her. "It is you who do not know."
"What do I not know?" she asked. The voice didn't return but the door at the other end of the room began to open. Orihime strained her neck trying to see who was entering the space with her. From the door a tall woman entered. She had remarkably long blond hair. Her eyes were a deep blue, and her features seemed familiar. Orihime felt affectionate towards this woman, as if she was an important person to her.
"Hello, Ta-, Orihime," the woman spoke to her in a gentle voice. "I am Miki."
Orihime heard the woman's name and her eyes grew large with astonishment. This was her, the woman from the story. She was Takako's mother. "Why can't I move? Why am I being held captive here?" she asked the woman. "I don't respond well to being held hostage."
"You are not a prisoner, my dear. You are a guest," Miki stated. "The reason you can't move right now is because you have yet to adjust to the atmosphere here. It's quite a bit denser than your body is used to." The woman placed her hands on either side of Orihime's face, and caressed her cheeks. Her eyes seemed to be sad, and the touch of this woman made Orihime relax.
"Will you tell me why I was brought here?" she asked of the older woman. Miki stood then, and walked away from the bed.
"For the longest time, we had given up hope of having our daughter returned to us," the courtesan started. "When he erased Takako's memories, and sent her to the human realm, my world ended. I felt then, that I would never see her again," Miki paused for a moment then continued, "For years we waited, and she never joined us here. But then her soul cried out. It was the saddest sound, filled with pain and anguish." The loving woman had tears in her eyes, when she turned to face Orihime again. "It was there in Hueco Mundo. The soul we had searched decades for, was in that lonely place. We feared then that she had turned hollow. But Reiō could finally trace his daughter's spirit and found that she was atop a fortress in the Hollow Sphere." Miki walked gracefully to the girl on the bed, she sat beside her and pulled her into her arms. "When you died atop of Las Noches, the essence that was our daughter was released. It was her soul that brought you back as the phoenix. You are not only Inoue Orihime; you are also Takako, my daughter. You have reincarnated over and over never releasing that spirit, until that moment. You are the daughter of the Soul King."
Ulquiorra was greeted by Shihōin Yoruichi upon arriving on the other side of the gate. With her were Kuchiki Rukia, and Abarai Renji, they would escort the hollow to the next phase. Surprisingly Ulquiorra felt at ease being here. His memories of his past life must be what alleviated his anxiety.
"This is nuts! I mean come on! We're Shinigami, why are we taking a hollow through Soul Society!?" Renji just couldn't keep his cool about the situation.
Rukia bashed the vice-captain and her best friend since childhood in his ribs then answered his question, "Would you pipe down! The last thing we need is for certain people to find this out! Besides we are doing this for both Orihime AND Ichigo! Urahara said this was the only way to save them both, so we're just gonna do it, and if we mess up, we take our punishment."
"No WAY! I'm blaming the pervert!" Renji countered, and was systematically punched twice. One punch to the gut by Rukia, and one knock in the head from the Shihōin Princess. "Shit! I'm jus' sayin' this is insane!" The woman gave him another stern look and Renji quieted himself.
"Shiba Kūkaku's residence is just over there," Yoruichi told the group. "You know how to concentrate your reiatsu, so the Reishūkaku should be no trouble for any of you. You'll need that to take the Kakaku Hō, to the Soul King's Palace."
They entered the home of the Shiba Family Head, "What a sorrier sonovabitch I've never seen," the voice of the clan leader bellowed from the hall. "Why are you standing around there for? We don't have much time before the Seireitei finds out what's going on and tries to put a stop to this!" The leader of the Shiba family stood at the entrance to the training area, she was a youthful-looking woman of average height. The woman had green eyes and wore bandages over her long messy black hair. Ulquiorra noticed she was missing her right arm and she wore wooden sandals not unlike Urahara Kisuke. They practiced with the Reishūkaku, and when he was ready Kūkaku prepared the cannon.
"I am very grateful to your assistance in this, but I am curious as to why you would aid me," the Cero Espada asked of the weird woman.
"Urahara explained the situation to me. I can't refuse a favor asked of him. That is all you need to know," she told him as she rubbed the stump where her right arm used to be.
Yoruichi noticed something move beyond the trees beside the Shiba residence. She slipped into the background easily, and waited for whoever was there, to show themselves. When the entity was closer she knew exactly who it was. She would distract the captain approaching until Ulquiorra could make his way to the cannon.
"You're a little out of the way aren't you?" the Shihōin clan leader expressed. Then grabbed the petite woman by her waist and carried her off into the tress. "What brings you all the way out here, Suì-Fēng?"
"Yoruichi-sama, I mean… uh…uh…uh… This is completely futile, I have already sent the keigun to infiltrate and arrest the intruder," Suì-Fēng stuttered out. Being this close to her former captain always made her anxious.
"Aww, Suì-Fēng hahaha, I already know that," the Goddess of Flash said to her and showed her another reason she earned that name. Yoruichi claimed the younger woman's lips in a heated kiss and had the current captain of squad 2 disrobed, while they were still in flight amongst the trees.
Kūkaku having already been well informed by Yoruichi that the Punishment force was on their way, she had the hollow in and ready to blast him to the Soul King's Realm. She began the launch sequence and chanted the incantation required for it. When the keigun came barging into the Shiba home, the cannon had already been fired off, and Ulquiorra was on his way to Reiōkyū.
"What?" she says to the men entering her home. "We were having a cook out, and the guests asked for fireworks… what's the problem?"
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