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Post by Yumiko Ryouma on Feb 10, 2015 14:18:01 GMT -6
Yumiko’s frown deepened. She had to convince them. She had to. She took Kita’s hand again. “Maybe you can break through it, Kita, but you’re forgetting those around you. What if Aizen managed to hypnotize one of them?” Her hand tightened around Kita’s. “You don’t want him to use your friends against you, do you?” She tugged her forward. “You have to hide.”
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Post by Kita Miyamoto on Feb 10, 2015 14:27:26 GMT -6
Kita sighed and looked to Gin then back to Yumiko. "I don't know what to do." She looked back to Gin. "Maybe I should go into hiding. Take Kenji with me and stay hidden until this is over. I am sure you know of a few places Aizen would never find me. Don't you?"
Hearing a noise behind her she turned to see Kenji peeking around the corner from the hall. Kita could tell he was scared, so she reached out to him as he scurried toward her wrapping his arms around her legs, Kita resting her hand to his back.
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Post by Gin Ichimaru on Feb 10, 2015 15:29:30 GMT -6
Gin nodded reluctantly. He didn't want to see Kita hurt by someone else with Kyoka. "Kisuke's shown me a few places in the last two weeks." He looked to Yumiko. "I will take you all to one now, and then I will go see what the damage is in Las Noches." He leaned over and kissed Kita's head. "It will be alright."
Kita nodded. Gin looked to Yumiko. "Will that reassure you, Yumiko?" he asked.
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Post by Yumiko Ryouma on Feb 10, 2015 15:33:10 GMT -6
Yumiko opened her mouth. She needed Kita to be somewhere... She nodded. "Yes, it will help," she murmured. She looked to Kenji and patted his head. "Sorry I'm worrying you, Kenji." Mizue's hilt was still heating up on her hip, ringing echoing in her head. But why? She lowered her head, still patting him. "I really, really am ..... sorry,'' she whispered.
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Post by Gin Ichimaru on Feb 10, 2015 16:23:28 GMT -6
Gin’s eyes narrowed. Why was she apologizing? This wasn’t her fault…. was it? Gin set a hand over hers on Kita, and she looked up. There was no mistaking the relief there. Was he imagining it?
“You don’t want him to use your friends against you."
He chuckled, half to himself. “On second thought, I think I will stay long enough to make sure nothing has followed Kurosaki here,” he quipped.
Yumiko’s head came up and her eyes narrowed, just for a moment.
Gin pushed on, watching her closely, and this time noticed something else.
“Mizue’s humming, Yumiko. Do you know why?”
Yumiko blinked and Shinsou hissed in the back of his mind. Gin pulled Kenji backwards and repeated the question.
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Post by Yumiko Ryouma on Feb 10, 2015 16:38:53 GMT -6
Yumiko backed up a step, shaking her head as Mizue continued to hum in her mind. She halted and looked up into the Snake's eyes. "She's feeding off my unease. She has before," she said quietly. She needed to take a step back to get him to leave. What- what has given rise to his suspicions?
"You're right," Gin murmured. "She has. Your sword is greedy, isn't it?"
What does he mean?
"Then again, can you stop a mirror from reflecting light, or fire, in this case?"
Yumiko shook her head again. "You're not making sense," she stated.
"No, what doesn't make sense is Aizen not seeing that Mizue no Kagami is dangerous to him in any form, as long as it absorbs the surrounding powers. And that includes Kyoka Suigetsu."
Yumiko's head snapped up, seeing beyond ... to Aizen and his shimmering blade. "Shatter....." Her mind cleared for a flash of time, filtering through the memories of the past few days but yet again stopping at Orhime's scorn and fury, the breaking of her friendship. Her consciousness blacked out and the powers of Kyoka Suigetsu tightened around her again. The second part of her mission forced itself deep into her psyche, pushing the glimmer of truth backwards again.
Gin threw Kenji and Kita over himself as Mizue's reflection of Shinsou ripped out at them.
"I'm sorry, Aizen," Yumiko whispered.
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Post by Kita Miyamoto on Feb 10, 2015 17:01:46 GMT -6
"Don't hurt her!" Kita screamed out gathering Kenji up in her arms. "She can't help herself!"
She quickly got Kenji out of harms way telling him to go underground and hide down there in the secret place Kisuke had. Kenji hung on to Kita tears in his eyes as Gin and Yumiko's blades clashed in the other room. "It will be alright. I promise." She told him petting his head and cheek. "Go on now." Kenji turned and ran off down the stairs. Kita turning back to Yumiko and Gin as their blades clashed again.
She rushed back in the room as Gin was cursing about something. Yumiko's eyes narrowed as she came at him again.
"Gin Move!" Kita called out to him.
"If I stop fighting her," Gin growled as their blades clashed again. "She will run."
Kita shook her head. "She won't have time," Kita's hands came up quickly. "Move!"
As soon as Gin jumped back Yumiko came forward, but not quick enough for Kita as she trapped her in a barrier like she placed the Captains in before. Kita ran to Gin's side seeing the sleeve of his kimono torn and blood covered. When she lifted the sleeve he had a nasty cut across his forearm.
"She is getting good with reflecting Shinsou's powers." Kita told him healing the wound.
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Post by Gin Ichimaru on Feb 10, 2015 17:19:48 GMT -6
Gin scoffed. “I don’t like being reminded of that fact when Aizen’s got her under his control, dearie.” This fight reminded him all too clearly of the night in his tower and the threat in the garden. He looked to Yumiko whose naked blade rested against her leg. Waiting. He sighed and looked to Kita. “It makes not wounding her more difficult as well. Shinsou isn’t a merciful blade.”
Kita chuckled softly and patted his healed arm before reaching up to stroke his cheek. She smiled and kissed him softly. “That kitsune is as merciful as yourself, my love," she whispered near his lips, "and right now, you didn’t want to harm her.”
Gin shook his head lightly. “Don’t go sharing your insights, pet. You’ll ruin my reputation.” As Kita giggled quietly, he sighed again. “We’ve got a problem on our hands. And if you see a way out before the group returns, I would be glad to hear it."
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Post by Kita Miyamoto on Feb 10, 2015 17:33:15 GMT -6
Kita looked to Yumiko as she stood calmly in her containment block. "She is like a snake coiled and ready to strike. We can't let her out of there. If you do it will lead to one of us getting hurt." She looked to Gin. "Or her getting hurt, and I don't want either."
Kita sighed shaking her head then looked around the room. "Where is Orihime?"
Gin shrugged looking around himself. "Maybe she got scared and hid herself."
Kita shook her head. "She is another one I am worried about. I hope she is alright wherever she is."
Just then, a bad feeling came over her as Kita turned and darting off toward the stairs to the underground. There on the stairs she saw Tessai, Kenji piggyback with him as they walked toward her. The three walked back in the room as Gin was now sitting to the floor at the table.
"We have to figure out something to do with her." Gin said looking from the three back to Yumiko.
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Post by Gin Ichimaru on Feb 10, 2015 18:02:34 GMT -6
“There are a few options before you,” Tessai murmured as he gave Kenji a cookie. “You can knock her out and send her to Soul Society. We could remove the barrier and you can hold her off long enough for me wrap her in Kido and put her in a sleep. Finally, we can put her in one of the cells by the laboratory. No one will be able to sense her in that room.”
“Whatever we chose to do, it needs to happen soon. Aizen has a link to his victims through his blade, and I doubt he’s going to calmly let her be caught.” Gin scratched his head and then continued. “Sending her back to Soul Society was the original plan, and I doubt the captain’s expecting her to be herself after Kita’s report beforehand. She would be safe from Aizen there, but the again, she’ll be going into another cage.” He shrugged. “Then again, with the way she is now, I don’t see an option without a cage.”
Tessai frowned in thought. “I believe Hachi and myself could recreate a lesser binding, which would make her less powerful and less dangerous, even under Kyoka, if you are hesitant about Soul Society.”
Gin waved his hand. “I’m not. It’s just with the way Aizen and Co. have their claws in her, any move to help seems like the wrong move, if you know what I mean. It's a clever and nasty noose that I am trying to think of a way out of."
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Post by Kita Miyamoto on Feb 10, 2015 18:11:38 GMT -6
Kita sighed, "I hate to think of her even being in the barrier I have her in, but if we are going to protect her and others right now. She is going to have to be caged." Kita bit her bottom lip. "Or send her back to Aizen." Slipped softly from her lips.
She looked away from Yumiko tears pooling in her eyes as she shook her head. "Anything but the last one. I know the real Yumiko would understand if we had to cage her for this, but I would rather die than send her back to that hell."
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Post by Eisaku Koga on Feb 10, 2015 18:40:09 GMT -6
"Whether she stays here, is sent to the Soul Society or goes back to Aizen, she will be trading one confinement for another." said Koga as he stepped from around a dark corner. He raised his hands and both Ichimaru and Tessai sprang forward pushing the child and human woman behind them. "It is the nature of this world - Subdue, confine or destroy what you do not understand or can not control. Whatever you decide to do, at the end of all of this, she will return to Las Noches. And, her safety will be guaranteed."
His eyes darted around the room, resting on the child for a moment before finding Ichimaru. "Quite like his father." he smiled. "Both of them. The girl, too."
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Post by Kita Miyamoto on Feb 10, 2015 20:09:10 GMT -6
Kita growled and looked at Koga her eyes narrowed. "If you like to breath I suggest you keep your mouth shut with your Master about the child, or I will come for your head."
Koga chuckled softly, "he is already aware of the Urahara child, Kita Miyamoto."
Kita reached for Kenji pulling him toward her, her eyes still on Koga as she heard Gin ask.
"What female are you refereeing to, Espada?"
Kita looked from Koga to Gin remembering he did mention a girl. She looked back at Koga her mind now wondering the same thing.
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Post by Eisaku Koga on Feb 10, 2015 20:24:18 GMT -6
Koga snapped his fingers, summoning Inoue from around the corner that he came from. "I am speaking about the child this one will bear for Aizen." He wrapped his arm around the darkened woman and kissed her cheek. "Unfortunately, there wasn't much time for you to gather any information. But, I applaud your performance." He looked to the human woman. "This fight for dominion will rage on until the children of your children bear children of their own."
Gin frowned. “If what you say about Inoue is true, what purpose does Yumiko serve? Care to share that, all knowing one?” the fox sneered.
"Yumiko serves no purpose. It is her power that Aizen seeks. A less glorious display of another's triumph to distract from his own. She is merely the vessel of his higher calling. Like your human woman."
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Post by Kita Miyamoto on Feb 10, 2015 21:13:40 GMT -6
Kita shook her head, "You know as well as I, Koga, that I will never open the gate for Aizen. So don't add me to that equation. Because it will only lead to demise. Be it yours or Aizen I don't care either way, but I will never open the gate for your Master and Lord."
"Like Ichimaru and Aizen, you can not see the end. And, it is not the goddess' place to tell you what waits for you there." Koga tightened his grip on Inoue as she rested her head on his shoulder. "I tell you this, only to prepare you for what is to come. You have seen only a glimpse of the power Aizen holds, as you have only experienced a glimpse of the goddess' power. You know as well as I do, you will open gate to the gods for him. Now, what lies beyond that for him, I will not divulge." He waved his free hand, opening a gargunta as he released Inoue. She stepped through it and waited. "Only one victor will come of this. And, he will rise again." Koga stepped through the gargunta and turned to Ichimaru. "Something to say?"
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