"Things seem to be going well." Aizen said with a smile as he watched how young Kurosaki finally defeated Kuchiki Byakuya.
The boy was truly his greatest, even if unintended, success. Merely fifteen years of age with less than a year of training and he was already strong enough to defeat a captain.
Sure, it was obvious that Kuchiki patriarch's pride would make him underestimate the young man and also refuse to acknowledge his strength, giving the young man the chances he would need to actually secure a win.
Yet a victory was still a victory. Only the weak would whine about circumstances that would cause them to lose, the strong would win regardless of those circumstances.
Still, he had to admit that not everything had gone exactly according to the plan.
Firstly it was the young Quincy from Ishida family and his little... contest with young Kurosaki. He still had no idea what the boy had been thinking while releasing a hollow bait in the most spiritual place in the living world but he certainly didn't complain. Instead he had made sure that even more hollows and even a Gillian would show up so that Soul Society would finally send someone to look for Kuchiki Rukia. Accelerating his plans by months.
The other... unseen factor to his plan was also a Quincy. One that he actually knew nothing about prior to his little skirmish with Gin when they arrived in Soul Society.
Cain Walter, his existence was like a goddamn sledgehammer that hit his head. How the fuck did Urahara Kisuke just pull out a random nobody strong enough to defeat two captains at once out of his ass?!
Sure, he could do the same and do it better but he was him. People normally weren't strong enough to do that!
Though the other Quincy did not seem to be fighting anyone at the moment. As a matter of fact Aizen couldn't find him at all and that was rather concerning. Yet he didn't really have time to think much about it and even if Cain Walter was hiding for some plan by Urahara Kisuke, which he doubted cause that man wouldn't reveal any secrets to his pawns, he would deal with him.
Maybe it was because of that small amount of stress that he had taken so much enjoyment out of cutting down young captain Hitsugaya, finally letting off some steam. It was a shame though, he would miss the little get togethers he had with the young captain. They might have been meaningless, but they had been somewhat... enjoyable.
"What is the meaning of this, captain Aizen?" But he would have to enjoy those memories later cause he was actually... not in danger but closest to such a thing possible at the moment.
After all, even if she was under Kyoka Suigetsu's complete hypnosis, he would rather not tangle with the first Kenpachi.
Honestly, it was almost impressive how the most bloodthirsty monster in Soul Society's history had managed to make a life for herself where she was the motherly healer that no one should mess with rather than the demon she was. He had to respect her for that if nothing else.
Still, he didn't have time to chat with her. Tousen should be just catching up to young Abarai and Aizen's prize was waiting for him.
So after a small discussion about how his zanpakuto was not a water type but an illusion one, which had shattered Unohana's lieutenant's worldview for some reason despite him already showing that he was a traitor by faking his death, and then had Gin use the Sentan Hakuja in order to leave for Soukyoku Hill. Where young Abarai was looking around with Kuchiki Rukia in his arms.
"Hello, Abarai-kun." He said with a pleasant smile while the redheaded Shinigami tried to make sense of a supposedly dead captain standing in front of him. "Please put Kuchiki Rukia down, and step aside." And then the redhead's expression turned stiff, not even asking... oh, he got it.
Unohana... no, her lieutenant must have used Tenteikūra in order to contact everyone else and inform them about his betrayal.
After that, it was a very small and short skirmish agains young Abarai where he used his barehand to stop his Shikai and break the sword apart. Followed by a shorter skirmish where young Kurosaki arrived and tried to help young Abarai.
It was rather disappointing, he knew that it was cruel to expect much from the young human after already having fought a captain before but he wished that his greatest creation could have showed something a little better. Though he would admit young Abarai's Higa Zekkou was somewhat impressive, for a failure like him anyway.
After that it was Komamura, one weakling after another, whom he defeated with a single Kurohitsugi before extracting Hogyoku from Kuchiki Rukia and ordering Gin to kill her.
Which was when Byakuya showed up, just where were all these people hiding, and protected her after all the time he spent trying to have her executed. He truly could not understand these people.
Oh well, it didn't really matter. Soon the rest of the captains would show up so he probably should start making preparations to leave. There was still so much to do and...
*Shiver*
For the first time in over a hundred years, Aizen felt danger as the sensation of steel slashing against flesh of his right arm so he immediately retreated to a safe distance while blood poured from his shoulder and looked at the missing Quincy on one knee with his sword in one hand and his other hand clenched.
That's when he felt emptiness and his hand immediately went to the pocket in his coat where it met... nothing.
"So, all of this yahoo was for this." Quincy said with a bored tone as he looked at Hogyoku between his fingers. "Guess it must be important."
...it was.
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