Basement Storage

"Asuhara’s 4": (continued)

Minako gawked as she looked into the large storage room that held all of Hojo’s valuables. Well, “room” was an understatement. It was several rooms all filled with priceless artwork. It wasn’t the largest stash they had seen, but it was large enough that they probably would not be able to clean Hojo out completely. Just enough to put him out of commission.

But that wasn’t what Minako was staring at. One of the rooms was filled with irreplaceable artifacts from all periods of the Gotei Thirteen’s history, possibly dating back to the founding. There were zanpakuto whose owners had long since been dead, and thus they too laid cold and quiet. There were important files and scrolls detailing Gotei secrets and history that not even the Shino Academy taught. Copies of Seireitei law. Names of previous Central Forty-Six members and their families. Even Soul Reaper tools and equipment that many had thought lost to time. Hell, there were even tomes stolen straight from the Daireisho archives.

“So…” Risa said quietly. “… What do we do with them?”

Minako slowly turned and looked at Risa. If they took them and were caught with them, they were going to get real comfy with the inside of a jail cell for a very long time. If they left them there, who knew what Hojo could do with them? There was a chance nothing would happen and he didn’t even know what he had, but there was also the chance that he did and he decided to do something with them.

“Take them. Take them all. If we don’t have room, make room. I don’t care if we have to carry the crap in our arms,” Minako told her. She pointed to the artifacts as she hurried back upstairs. “Make sure whatever we’re taking out of this basement is packed up by the time Naoru and Father arrive with the cart.”