"P-please put that dow-AH!"
Keigo ducked as an antique vase was thrown at his head, shattering against the wall. Ooooh...his sister was going to kill him for that! That was, if these little brats didn't kill him first. He had no clue where they came from or what they were, all that he knew was that they were not normal human children! After all, normal human children could not break a door down, nor could they lift tables and flip them over. The worst part was that Keigo was powerless to stop them. Of course, Ichigo didn't listen to him when he called to ask for help. Now he had been reduced to cowering in a corner as the two kids terrorized his apartment. His sister was currently out shopping with her friends, and the people upstairs were...well he had no clue where they were, but they clearly couldn't hear what was going on, else they would have come to bang on his door, only to find it was no longer attached to the doorway, and demand to know what was going on.
"Hey, Grimmjow?" one of the voices called from the kitchen.
The blue-haired Espada looked up from the couch he had been tearing at like a cat. "What is it, Aaroniero?"
"Do you know how to work this thing? I know fire is supposed to come out, but I can't get it to work."
Keigo froze. Fire?! Kids weren't supposed to play with fire! He was suddenly on his feet and running to the kitchen. Halfway there, he tripped on the stones that had been in the beta fish's vase (Grimmjow had eaten the fish then thrown the vase onto the floor) and landed flat on his face. This didn't stop him, however, as he quickly scrambled back to his feet and reached the doorway to the kitchen.
The other child, with messy, dark hair and blue eyes, was standing on a chair, staring at the stove, playing with the knobs. The other child walked in, nearly knocking Keigo over on the way. Aaroniero turned to look as Grimmjow stepped over the threshold.
"How do you turn this on?"
"Let me see, move out of the way!" Grimmjow said, standing up on the chair as the other got off. He played with the knobs a bit, hearing a clicking sound when he hit a certain spot.
"Oh no you don't! Get away from there!" Keigo yelled, stomping forward to get the children away from his stove.
Grimmjow didn't even look back. He hopped from the chair to the counter, grabbed the cookie jar, and chucked it at Keigo's head.
This time, Keigo wasn't able to dodge. He fell to the ground, unconscious, as the cookie jar shattered on the floor beside him. Aaroniero picked up one of the chocolate chip cookies and munched on it.
"Hey, these are pretty tasty! Have one!" He said, tossing a cookie to his partner-in-crime.
Grimmjow caught the cookie and took a bite. "You're right, they are good. Put a bunch in a bag so we can take them with us."
While Aaroniero busied himself with finding a bag to put the cookies in, Grimmjow tried the stove again. After a few clicks, it went on. Unfortunately, a bit too much gas had been let out before the Espada got it to work, and the flames burst out. Grimmjow yelped, lost his balance and fell to the ground along with the chair he had been standing on.
"Hey, are you okay? Did you get burned?" Aaroniero asked, spewing cookie crumbs out of his mouth as he talked.
Grimmjow sat up. "I'm fine. I didn't know the fire was gonna do that. Stupid thing." He growled, kicking the stove and denting the oven door. "Let's go, I'm bored here now." He stuffed a cookie in his mouth then began heading for the door, kicking Keigo on his way by and not bothering to turn off the stove.
Aaroniero nodded, grabbed his bag of cookies and walked right over Keigo as if he wasn't there.
The moment the two got outside, they were lifted into the air.
"There ya brats are." Ichimaru said, picking up Grimmjow.
"Hey, let me go!" Grimmjow yelled, struggling to get down. As soon as he was close enough, the Espada kicked Ichimaru in the face, causing the Shinigami to drop him. Unfortunately for him, he didn't get very far before Tousen grabbed the back of his shirt and tugged him back. Aaroneiro was in Tousen's other arm, but decided against mimicking Grimmjow and simply stayed put.
"Why you little-" Ichimaru growled, bringing his hands away from his face to reveal a bloody nose.
Tousen just sighed. "Come on, let's get these two back to Las Noches."
As much as Ichimaru wanted to wring Grimmjow's neck, he resisted. Aizen might be upset with him if he killed one of the Espada. Though, truth be told, he wouldn't mind putting his hands around Aizen's neck either. He hadn't done anything to help them with the Espada-turned-Kindergarteners while making Tousen and Ichimaru do everything. If it wasn't for the fact he wanted to keep on good terms with Aizen, Ichimaru probably would have just left the children to Tousen a while ago.
"We better get somethin' for all this work. It's not our fault Szayel can't stop playin' in his lab and Yammy is an idiot."
"Ah hah! You just called Yammy an idiot! I'm telling him!" Grimmjow said.
Tousen shook his head. "You have to be careful what you say around children. They are very honest and have no problem repeating what they hear somebody say."
"So they are." Ichimaru grumbled. "I hope the fraccion are having some luck. I don't want to have to track down every single on of these kids."
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Lilinette tried to ignore the whistling behind her as she walked through a shopping plaza. Had these guys never seen a girl before? Sheesh! And these girls, why did they keep giving her such dirty looks? What was wrong with the people of this town?
"Shouldn't you be wearing clothes, little girl?" An older woman said in a sharp tone.
Lilinette glared. "I'm not a little girl. And I am wearing clothes!"
"If you aren't a little girl," a male voice said from behind her, "then what do you say we...hang out tonight."
Lilinette turned to face the guy beside her. He was young, probably about 16, with long dark hair and blue eyes. Before Lilinette even had a chance to retort, the boy's arm slipped around her waist and she felt him grab her behind. A second later, he was on the ground, in pain from being kneed in the groin with more force than he ever thought a girl had. The arrancar spit her tongue out at him before skipping away, not even noticing the looks of surprise following her.
Near the end of the shopping plaza was a rather expensive-looking furniture store. Lilinette stopped to glance inside. The bed on display in the window looked like one of the most comfortable things anybody could ever rest on- the perfect place to find Stark.
The bell on the door rang as Stark's fraccion walked into the furniture store. It didn't take long until her suspicions proved correct. In the back of the store, a middle-aged man was standing by one of the large beds, shaking a sleeping child.
"Stark!" Lilienette yelled, garnering the attention of everyone in the store as she ran over to the bed, picked up the Espada and hugged him. "I had a feeling I'd find you here!"
Stark didn't look nearly as excited as his fraccion. "Did you have to wake me up? I was so comfortable..."
"I have been looking for you! We have to get back right away!"
"Excuse me, Miss?" The man said, tapping Lilinette on the shoulder to get her attention.
"What?"
"Are you this child's mother?"
Lilinette laughed. "No. I'm..." she paused for a moment, trying to think of the right word to use. Telling him that she was his fraccion certainly wasn't going to get her anywhere. "His nanny!"
"You are his nanny...and you let him wander around on his own?"
The arrancar shrugged and turned her attention back to Stark. "You can sleep when we get back home, let's get out of here!" Before the man had a chance to say anything more, Lilinette was out the door and on her way back to Las Noches.
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Kurakara Hospital was more busy than usual, with nurses wheeling patients down the corridors as yet more patients were brought in. Ryuken Ishida was running back and forth through the various rooms, checking on patients and giving doctors orders and advice.
"Uryu!" Ryuken shouted when he spotted his son. "Help the nurses."
"What's going on?" Uryu asked, stepping out of the way as two nurses wheeled a young woman passed.
"There was some kind of explosion. It was small but injured several people. I have no time to explain, just help!" With that, Ryuken turned away from Uryu and continued on his way.
Uryu stepped into the nearest room to see if the doctors and nurses had everything under control. As he stepped in to get a look at the patient, he sensed a faint yet strange energy emanating from the burn on the patient's right arm. It looked pretty serious, a third degree burn, but that didn't explain the energy coming from it. Uryu couldn't help but be reminded of a Hollow...
He froze. Was there a Hollow in Kurakara Town? But that didn't make any sense. He would have known, and at the very least Ichigo and Rukia would already be taking care of it. Then why did the burn victim have the remnants of a Hollow's reiatsu?! Uryu hurried out of the room, whipped out his cell phone and dialed Ichigo's number.
"Hello?" Ichigo's voice asked on the other end.
"Kurosaki! Have you heard what's going on?"
"I'm watching the television now. Something about a small explosion that sent people to the hospital. Why?"
"It's not a normal explosion. I just saw one of the patients. He had a third degree burn and I could sense a reiatsu similar to a Hollow's emanating from the burn."
Ichigo's end was silent.
"Kurosaki? Did you hear me? Kurosaki!"
"Yes, I heard you!"
"Then say something! What do you think?"
"Rukia and I will go check it out."
"I'm coming with you."
"Shouldn't you stay there and help your dad run the hospital?"
"He can take care of things himself. I'll meet you at your house." With that, Uryu hung up. He was sure his father must have sensed something too, and if he did, he would have known Uryu would pursue whatever caused it. Besides, unless somebody needed to be sewn up, there was no reason for him to stick around. There were plenty of very good doctors in the hospital. He didn't give it another thought as he ran out of the hospital, not even noticing the pink-haired child on his way out...
Keigo ducked as an antique vase was thrown at his head, shattering against the wall. Ooooh...his sister was going to kill him for that! That was, if these little brats didn't kill him first. He had no clue where they came from or what they were, all that he knew was that they were not normal human children! After all, normal human children could not break a door down, nor could they lift tables and flip them over. The worst part was that Keigo was powerless to stop them. Of course, Ichigo didn't listen to him when he called to ask for help. Now he had been reduced to cowering in a corner as the two kids terrorized his apartment. His sister was currently out shopping with her friends, and the people upstairs were...well he had no clue where they were, but they clearly couldn't hear what was going on, else they would have come to bang on his door, only to find it was no longer attached to the doorway, and demand to know what was going on.
"Hey, Grimmjow?" one of the voices called from the kitchen.
The blue-haired Espada looked up from the couch he had been tearing at like a cat. "What is it, Aaroniero?"
"Do you know how to work this thing? I know fire is supposed to come out, but I can't get it to work."
Keigo froze. Fire?! Kids weren't supposed to play with fire! He was suddenly on his feet and running to the kitchen. Halfway there, he tripped on the stones that had been in the beta fish's vase (Grimmjow had eaten the fish then thrown the vase onto the floor) and landed flat on his face. This didn't stop him, however, as he quickly scrambled back to his feet and reached the doorway to the kitchen.
The other child, with messy, dark hair and blue eyes, was standing on a chair, staring at the stove, playing with the knobs. The other child walked in, nearly knocking Keigo over on the way. Aaroniero turned to look as Grimmjow stepped over the threshold.
"How do you turn this on?"
"Let me see, move out of the way!" Grimmjow said, standing up on the chair as the other got off. He played with the knobs a bit, hearing a clicking sound when he hit a certain spot.
"Oh no you don't! Get away from there!" Keigo yelled, stomping forward to get the children away from his stove.
Grimmjow didn't even look back. He hopped from the chair to the counter, grabbed the cookie jar, and chucked it at Keigo's head.
This time, Keigo wasn't able to dodge. He fell to the ground, unconscious, as the cookie jar shattered on the floor beside him. Aaroniero picked up one of the chocolate chip cookies and munched on it.
"Hey, these are pretty tasty! Have one!" He said, tossing a cookie to his partner-in-crime.
Grimmjow caught the cookie and took a bite. "You're right, they are good. Put a bunch in a bag so we can take them with us."
While Aaroniero busied himself with finding a bag to put the cookies in, Grimmjow tried the stove again. After a few clicks, it went on. Unfortunately, a bit too much gas had been let out before the Espada got it to work, and the flames burst out. Grimmjow yelped, lost his balance and fell to the ground along with the chair he had been standing on.
"Hey, are you okay? Did you get burned?" Aaroniero asked, spewing cookie crumbs out of his mouth as he talked.
Grimmjow sat up. "I'm fine. I didn't know the fire was gonna do that. Stupid thing." He growled, kicking the stove and denting the oven door. "Let's go, I'm bored here now." He stuffed a cookie in his mouth then began heading for the door, kicking Keigo on his way by and not bothering to turn off the stove.
Aaroniero nodded, grabbed his bag of cookies and walked right over Keigo as if he wasn't there.
The moment the two got outside, they were lifted into the air.
"There ya brats are." Ichimaru said, picking up Grimmjow.
"Hey, let me go!" Grimmjow yelled, struggling to get down. As soon as he was close enough, the Espada kicked Ichimaru in the face, causing the Shinigami to drop him. Unfortunately for him, he didn't get very far before Tousen grabbed the back of his shirt and tugged him back. Aaroneiro was in Tousen's other arm, but decided against mimicking Grimmjow and simply stayed put.
"Why you little-" Ichimaru growled, bringing his hands away from his face to reveal a bloody nose.
Tousen just sighed. "Come on, let's get these two back to Las Noches."
As much as Ichimaru wanted to wring Grimmjow's neck, he resisted. Aizen might be upset with him if he killed one of the Espada. Though, truth be told, he wouldn't mind putting his hands around Aizen's neck either. He hadn't done anything to help them with the Espada-turned-Kindergarteners while making Tousen and Ichimaru do everything. If it wasn't for the fact he wanted to keep on good terms with Aizen, Ichimaru probably would have just left the children to Tousen a while ago.
"We better get somethin' for all this work. It's not our fault Szayel can't stop playin' in his lab and Yammy is an idiot."
"Ah hah! You just called Yammy an idiot! I'm telling him!" Grimmjow said.
Tousen shook his head. "You have to be careful what you say around children. They are very honest and have no problem repeating what they hear somebody say."
"So they are." Ichimaru grumbled. "I hope the fraccion are having some luck. I don't want to have to track down every single on of these kids."
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Lilinette tried to ignore the whistling behind her as she walked through a shopping plaza. Had these guys never seen a girl before? Sheesh! And these girls, why did they keep giving her such dirty looks? What was wrong with the people of this town?
"Shouldn't you be wearing clothes, little girl?" An older woman said in a sharp tone.
Lilinette glared. "I'm not a little girl. And I am wearing clothes!"
"If you aren't a little girl," a male voice said from behind her, "then what do you say we...hang out tonight."
Lilinette turned to face the guy beside her. He was young, probably about 16, with long dark hair and blue eyes. Before Lilinette even had a chance to retort, the boy's arm slipped around her waist and she felt him grab her behind. A second later, he was on the ground, in pain from being kneed in the groin with more force than he ever thought a girl had. The arrancar spit her tongue out at him before skipping away, not even noticing the looks of surprise following her.
Near the end of the shopping plaza was a rather expensive-looking furniture store. Lilinette stopped to glance inside. The bed on display in the window looked like one of the most comfortable things anybody could ever rest on- the perfect place to find Stark.
The bell on the door rang as Stark's fraccion walked into the furniture store. It didn't take long until her suspicions proved correct. In the back of the store, a middle-aged man was standing by one of the large beds, shaking a sleeping child.
"Stark!" Lilienette yelled, garnering the attention of everyone in the store as she ran over to the bed, picked up the Espada and hugged him. "I had a feeling I'd find you here!"
Stark didn't look nearly as excited as his fraccion. "Did you have to wake me up? I was so comfortable..."
"I have been looking for you! We have to get back right away!"
"Excuse me, Miss?" The man said, tapping Lilinette on the shoulder to get her attention.
"What?"
"Are you this child's mother?"
Lilinette laughed. "No. I'm..." she paused for a moment, trying to think of the right word to use. Telling him that she was his fraccion certainly wasn't going to get her anywhere. "His nanny!"
"You are his nanny...and you let him wander around on his own?"
The arrancar shrugged and turned her attention back to Stark. "You can sleep when we get back home, let's get out of here!" Before the man had a chance to say anything more, Lilinette was out the door and on her way back to Las Noches.
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Kurakara Hospital was more busy than usual, with nurses wheeling patients down the corridors as yet more patients were brought in. Ryuken Ishida was running back and forth through the various rooms, checking on patients and giving doctors orders and advice.
"Uryu!" Ryuken shouted when he spotted his son. "Help the nurses."
"What's going on?" Uryu asked, stepping out of the way as two nurses wheeled a young woman passed.
"There was some kind of explosion. It was small but injured several people. I have no time to explain, just help!" With that, Ryuken turned away from Uryu and continued on his way.
Uryu stepped into the nearest room to see if the doctors and nurses had everything under control. As he stepped in to get a look at the patient, he sensed a faint yet strange energy emanating from the burn on the patient's right arm. It looked pretty serious, a third degree burn, but that didn't explain the energy coming from it. Uryu couldn't help but be reminded of a Hollow...
He froze. Was there a Hollow in Kurakara Town? But that didn't make any sense. He would have known, and at the very least Ichigo and Rukia would already be taking care of it. Then why did the burn victim have the remnants of a Hollow's reiatsu?! Uryu hurried out of the room, whipped out his cell phone and dialed Ichigo's number.
"Hello?" Ichigo's voice asked on the other end.
"Kurosaki! Have you heard what's going on?"
"I'm watching the television now. Something about a small explosion that sent people to the hospital. Why?"
"It's not a normal explosion. I just saw one of the patients. He had a third degree burn and I could sense a reiatsu similar to a Hollow's emanating from the burn."
Ichigo's end was silent.
"Kurosaki? Did you hear me? Kurosaki!"
"Yes, I heard you!"
"Then say something! What do you think?"
"Rukia and I will go check it out."
"I'm coming with you."
"Shouldn't you stay there and help your dad run the hospital?"
"He can take care of things himself. I'll meet you at your house." With that, Uryu hung up. He was sure his father must have sensed something too, and if he did, he would have known Uryu would pursue whatever caused it. Besides, unless somebody needed to be sewn up, there was no reason for him to stick around. There were plenty of very good doctors in the hospital. He didn't give it another thought as he ran out of the hospital, not even noticing the pink-haired child on his way out...
