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Post by Ulquiorra Cifer on Oct 15, 2015 22:47:04 GMT -6
Ulquiorra paused. “You and I have the same thoughts on the waste of the human race, and I have an insight into our race that you - as an overconfident outsider - does not, I believe is what he was trying to convey with that word.” He started to walk quickly again.
“You don’t believe he was wrong?” Kita inquired, hurrying to keep pace with him.
“You have to listen for me to be your council. So far, you have not, or you would have used your supposed intelligence to stay silent and stay out of the fight.” He glared into the recesses of a cage and something slithered deeper into the shadows, away from them. An odor like raw eggs drifted upwards.
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Post by Kita Miyamoto on Oct 15, 2015 23:02:29 GMT -6
Kita covered her mouth and nose with the long sleeve of her haori as she wrinkled her nose in disgust. "Nasty..." she complained barely above a whisper. her attention turning back to the Fourth.
"I could not allow that fight to continue. It was useless and proved no point in the matter." Ulquiorra said nothing as Kita added. "You know I am right. When those two fight it ends with one of them dying and then coming back to exact revenge. It is a cruel cycle and you cannot say it is not."
She jumped as something slithered under her feet and between her legs, she quickly grabbed Ulquiorra's sleeve getting up next to him again. She looked quickly around on the floor wondering if it was still close. "Can we pick up the pace please. This place give me the willies."
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Post by Ulquiorra Cifer on Oct 15, 2015 23:22:28 GMT -6
Ulquiorra didn’t respond but flared his reiatsu enough that more shadows retreated. As the hall stilled around them again, Ulquiorra continued to walk on. They turned a corner at a crossroads, where light deepened a vermillion hue gleaming in the wall. Then it faded. The Espada and his charge moved forwards.
“Tell me, woman,” the Fourth muttered as the hall darkened again at their exit and a door opened on the far end, “what is the code that of survival that guides the natural world?” He turned to face her. “Ichimaru and Aizen are driven by the desire for blood, and after his betrayal, that skirmish was inevitable. Battle is the only way of power here.”
He turned around and walked into the once again stark white walls of the palace. “And he thrives in it - even if he pretends to have forgotten.” Moved
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Post by Kita Miyamoto on Nov 16, 2015 15:59:33 GMT -6
"Father Figure": (continued) When Kita arrived at the lab Kisuke was sitting at a high table looking through some notes and pouring an orange liquid from one vile to another vile of pale blue liquid. It bubbled and hissed turning a deep green in color. Kisuke's eyes lit up and a wide smile crossed his lips. She could not believe how that man adapted to being trapped in Las Noches. She knew he did not give up on the hope of getting out or even the fact of defeating his brother Aizen, but there was something about it. Something about him and settling for being trapped where he was at the moment.
He surely had his tough times like the others trapped here with him, but like the Captain; Captain Ukitake. They made the best of it. Turning it in their favor every chance they got. Even if it meant their hide, a beating beyond any even she had gotten. They still smiled. They still laughed and they still tried their damnest to convince her that what she was doing was wrong. No matter how much Aizen or herself tried to glorify it; it was still wrong.
Stepping up to the table resting her hands to the top of it, Kisuke looked her way."Well you came quickly." Kisuke replied with a wide smile. He stretched out his arms for a hug.Kita ignored the gesture and gave him a soft smile. "Something you're working on for your brother?" she asked him.
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Post by Urahara Kisuke on Nov 16, 2015 17:00:33 GMT -6
Letting his arms drop to his sides he lifted from the stool, “I don’t do anything for that asshole unless he beats it out of me.” He stepped up to Kita taking her in his arms giving her a tight hug. Kita whimpered with a slight wince as he took a half step back, his hands sliding from around her to her shoulders. He looked at her from under his hat.
"What happen to you?"
Kita only shook her head.
"Did Aizen hurt you?" Kisuke pressed.
"No. Lord Aizen had nothing to do with this." Kita informed him.
Kisuke's skin crawled with her calling his brother Lord. It was something he knew he would never get use to and if he had his way about it she would not call him that around him or ever, but after the last torture session from opposing it he figured he would let it drop.
"Then who?" Kisuke asked her.
"It's nothing really. Just a little..." She blushed tucking a lock of hair behind her ear with a slight smile as she cast her eyes down. "It's nothing." She repeated looking back up at him.
“Kita, who hurt you, and why have you not healed it yet?” Kisuke pressed again as he touched her hand.
Kita pulled back from him looking into his eyes. “Really it is nothing, Kisuke. Gin just got a little carried away with me this morning.”
“Ichimaru?!” Kisuke’s eyes narrowed.
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Post by Kita Miyamoto on Nov 16, 2015 17:13:45 GMT -6
Kita shook her head. “It’s not like that. Gin would never hurt me. You know that.”
“Do I?” Kisuke growled stepping back as he sat back to the stool. “If Aizen deems it. That ass will do anything.” He paused, “How is the ass anyway?”
Kita narrowed her eyes at the Shopkeeper. “You’re an ass you know that? You accuse him of hurting me then turn around and ask how he is doing?” She turned and stepped away from the table. “He is doing well. He is happy. We both are.”
Kisuke sighed adjusting his hat, “How happy can you really be here in Las Noches, Kita. Really?”
Kita spun looking at him. “We are both where we want to be. We are together and Sojiro is with us. He is safe, loved and he is well balanced.”
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Post by Urahara Kisuke on Nov 16, 2015 17:18:54 GMT -6
Kisuke laughed aloud. “Well balanced!? How in the hell can the boy be well balanced with a mentor like Aizen and his father?”
Kita stormed toward Kisuke as she lifted her hand to slap him across the face, Kisuke catching her in mid-swing. His eyes narrowed at her as she tugged at her hand to free it. Hanging on to her wrist Kisuke looked her in the eyes.
“You have been weakened. Is that why you have not healed yourself yet?”
Kita jerked her hand from his grasp turning away from him. “There has just been a lot going on in the last twenty-four hours. I have not really rested fully.”
“You’re telling me the attack on Soul Society and Karakura is less then eight hours away and you have not rested properly? -- Are you looking to get yourself killed?”
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Post by Kita Miyamoto on Nov 16, 2015 17:30:47 GMT -6
Kita turned stepping back toward him as she shook her head slightly. “What do you care? You’re against us anyway.”
Kisuke stood again taking hold of her shoulders as he looked into her eyes. “Because I don’t want to lose you.”
Kita hissed pulling away from him. “Why did you call me here, Shopkeeper? It surely was not because you want to know how we all were doing. You see Sojiro daily.”
Kisuke looked at her from under his hat and sighed. “Don’t do this Kita. There is still hope for you in all this. I know Aizen had Szayel change your memories and your thought patterns. He has you thinking you have turned against us and joined him. What he did to Gin I am not sure, but when I figure it out. You know damn--”
“Yeah yeah,” Kita spat out as she rolled her hand in an unenthused gesture, “I know all about it. You’re going to bring him and me back to our old selves. I have heard this story so. many. times. I am actually getting tired of hearing it.”
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Post by Urahara Kisuke on Nov 16, 2015 18:17:57 GMT -6
"Kita, only you can stop this." Kisuke told her as she stepped toward him. "There is still a chance Central 46 will over look what you have done to the human realm."
Kita growled, "That's the issue, Kisuke. Central 46 forgives no one. They lock up. Kill or banish whatever they cannot control or understand. Look at Gin. Vale. Yumiko! THEY EVEN DID IT TO YOU!! And you think they are going to just forgive and forget what I have done? I have not even killed anyone, but still they will cut-and-try me as I have."
"You gave the order. That's all that matters. Your hands may be clean, but you have still killed." Kisuke told her.
"But what I have done I have done for the good of the humans. No one else was doing it. Not the Soul Reapers. Not the Gods. NO ONE!!"
"BUT YOU STILL KILLED, KITA!! You still killed innocents. Humans."
"My own kind." Her head shook madly. "I am not a Soul Reaper. I never took a vow to protect them I am onl--"
"YOU'RE THE VESSEL OF THE SERAPH!! A DAMN GODDESS!! IF NOT YOU TO PROTECT THEM; THEN WHO?! WHO KITA?!"
"NOT ME!!" Her hand shot up as she pointed at Kisuke. "And you and your kind are no better then me, Gin or even Aizen and Vale. You have killed your share. Given orders to kill and even killed with your own hands. Even of your own kind. How can you stand there and judge me? How can any of you stand and judge any of us when you, you are no better."
A hot dagger pierced Kisuke's heart hearing Kita say they were no better than Aizen or Vale, grabbing her shoulders he shook her slightly as he growled at her. "I took a vow to protect the humans. It's what I am. It's what I will die as, and as long as there are humans to protect--I will do it."
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Post by Kita Miyamoto on Nov 16, 2015 19:33:43 GMT -6
Kita jerked away from Kisuke with narrowed eyes. "That's mighty noble of you, Shopkeeper, but you risk your life for trash. Filth that has no cause. Greedy and vain and left wanting for only more. That's why they destroy without a second thought. Destroy to the point of self annihilation. None of them smart enough to realize that." She turned away from him stepping toward the door of the lab.
"You go right ahead and keep up the good fight for those voracious humans. I will not stand for their narcissistic ways any longer. I have hated them for decades and I will continue to hate them even on my death bed."
She reached for the handle of the door as she heard Kisuke sigh. She looked slightly over her shoulder at him, his head lowering in defeat. "And so you know. If you do by some odd chance break free of Lord Aizen and flee from Las Noches--If you get in my way. I will do to you. What I have done to so many humans before you."
Kisuke's head lifted quickly, his eyes narrowing at the woman he called his daughter. Kita turned without another word and exited the lab.
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Post by Seto Tetsuya on Dec 11, 2015 22:39:59 GMT -6
"Begin the Divide":Vale pushed open the doors of the Octava's lab. He stepped lightly, a hand resting against the hilt of his blade as he looked around the lab. Letting another hand run along the metal tables, knocking over jar and papers, Vale walked silently through the lab until he came to the desk of Urahara. Stopping in front of the desk, Vale looked to the working Urahara. He remained silent until the Shopkeeper placed his pencil to the table and looked up at him. Vale nodded, placing a hand to the table. "What are you working on today, Urahara? Something to...avoid the inevitable?" "Yes." answered Urahara. "I've come up with a few decent ways of taking your head, today." A sly smile appeared on the Shopkeepers lips as he began his work again. Vale gave a smile of his own. "Clever. I won't take up too much of your time. I just wanted to speak with you for a moment." Extending his hand toward an empty stool, Vale took the seat. "Do you mind?"
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Post by Urahara Kisuke on Dec 11, 2015 22:51:35 GMT -6
Kisuke did not look up at him again as he replied, "Yes I do, but that has never stop you before in doing what you want. So do as you please." Kisuke looked up at the man as he pulled the stool over and sat down.
"I see you have moved from Juushiro's daughter to mine. Are you enjoying my daughter as much as you did Yumiko?" He looked away from Vale back to his paper as a wide smile crossed Vale's face.
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Post by Seto Tetsuya on Dec 11, 2015 22:55:12 GMT -6
"Quite." replied Vale. "And, you do not really want the answer to that question. Or, are you rearing to show us all that the collar you wear can not hold you?" Vale tapped on the table as he looked to Urahara.
"You are the brother of Lord Aizen. What can not hold him, can not hold you. It is foolish to believe otherwise."
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Post by Urahara Kisuke on Dec 11, 2015 23:00:10 GMT -6
Kisuke chuckled still looking at his papers. "Your not as dumb as you look, Tervaden." He set his pencil down looking back at the man.
"I know you did not come here to gloat, so what is it you want, Tervaden? Make it quick." He looked around the lab. "I have things to blow up and plots to foil."
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Post by Seto Tetsuya on Dec 11, 2015 23:12:48 GMT -6
Vale grinned, rising from his seat. His eyes narrowed slightly as he looked to Urahara. "Plots to foil, hm? Like the attempt to free Kita that is happening as we speak?" Vale nodded, his grin growing wider.
"I'm going to do you a favor," began Vale. "The Fourth will pay for what he's done to Kita. When I am done with him, depending on how I go about it, you may get the privilege of dissecting an Espada."
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