(With Zuri)
Zuri woke the next day and screamed while starting to panic, then she calmed herself down when she realised she wasn’t captured and she knew where she was. A tray was placed in her room with food on, scurrying over to the food she greedily ate it.
The doors to the room opened to reveal Ulquiorra, he was the one that had to keep an eye on her. He beckoned her to follow him so she did, he took her to a large room was looked like a training stadium, Aizen sat on one of the stands looking down at her along with many other Arrancar and Espada.
“Zuri, my dear, as promised, I will train you” he said.
Then a man appeared in front of her, he was big and tall, standing over 7ft, he had a half a hollow-mask on his face and grinned down at Zuri.
“13th Arrancar, Tobikuma Hashimoto” the man introduced himself.
“Erm... Zuri Watanabe?” Zuri mumbled unsure of how she was meant to introduce herself.
As soon as Zuri finished her sentence Tobikuma slammed his sword up against hers, she easily dodged his attack but was pushed back by the force of it. Zuri then jumped into the air and slammed her Zanpakuto down on Tobikuma’s head, but he dodged it by jumping out of the way then slamming his sword into Zuri’s side.
Zuri fell back onto the ground and looked at her wound that was oozing out blood. Zuri covered her wound with her hand and then glared at Tobikuma, he just smirked down at her and then licked his lips.
“Bastard..” Zuri mumbled to herself.
“Going to move any time soon, Zuri?” Tobikuma grinned.
Zuri chewed on her bottom lip to prevent herself from groaning out in pain, she didn’t want to let one wound stop her from fighting. Composing herself Zuri tightened the grip around the handle of her Zanpakuto and stared at the man who stood before her.
A hand made of shadows appeared from the ground and started grabbing at Tobikuma, and he cut the shadows but whenever he did new shadows would just replace the old ones. Zuri grinned as she saw him hop around the room trying to get away from the shadows.
Tobikuma bit his lip and looked up at Aizen who was grinning down at Zuri approvingly, he growled.
“Show us the light Nikkou” he yelled pointing his Zanpakuto into the air.
Tobikuma’s Zanpakuto produced a light as bright as the sun, Zuri shielded her eyes with her hand, it seemed to be even brighter than the sun and it clouded her vision. Zuri looked around the room and saw only light, she cursed under her breath.
The light seemed to create a light fog that made it harder for Zuri to see anything a metre and further in front of her. Zuri turned in circles trying to find Tobikuma but she didn’t see him all she heard was his evil laughter that echoed around her.
Tobikuma aimed his Zanpakuto for Zuri and slashed her cheek, she turned, then he slashed her back, and she turned again only for him to stab and attack at her stomach and legs. Falling to the ground Zuri coughed up blood.
“Can’t use your shadows anymore, can you?” he laughed.
Zuri’s vision was then suddenly clouded by death, hatred and blood. She stood up smirking, the pain that moments ago vibrated through her body were now gone, she felt nothing but the will to kill.
Zuri raised her Zanpakuto into the air and yelled “KURAI! I SUMMON YOU!”
Shadow’s engulfed her Zanpakuto and her body making the shadows act as armour while she fought and battled. As Zuri reached her arm up, shadows engulfed it to form an even larger arm that reached out into the mist and grabbed Tobikuma, once she grabbed him she pulled him back toward her and smirked.
“Wherever there is light there is darkness” Zuri smirked evilly while licking some blood off her cheek.
The shadow hand that was wrapped around Tobikuma squeezed him till his burst like a bomb letting the blood splatter everywhere; on the floor, walls and Zuri’s face, yet all the while her expression didn’t change and she didn’t flinch or move.
A clapping noise was heard and Zuri seemed to have control over her mind, she looked and saw Aizen grinning down at her.
“Fantastic, you have much potential” he grinned.
Then some guards walked behind her and grabbed her hands immobilizing them, while they dragged her back to a mysterious room. In that room, they tied her to a chair, shining a light into her eyes while walking away grinning evilly to themselves.
Aizen entered the room and placed a hand on Zuri’s forehead forcing her to see the worst things possible.
The first image was of her losing control the first time and how evil she looked while she killed that Hollow and loved doing so.
The second image seemed look as if it was the future because she saw her parents lying on the floor dead, blood oozing out their bodies while a figure stood over them smirking evilly, the vision became more clear and Zuri realised that the person that killed them was her.
Zuri screamed and struggled in the chair while Aizen smirked.
“I can prevent that image from becoming real” Aizen smiled.
Zuri could only nod.
“Will you do anything?” he grinned.
Zuri nodded again.
“In a week’s time, I will have some guests coming, kill them for me” then he walked away leaving Zuri to look at many nightmares that she feared.
Zuri then fell asleep and woke up in her room; it had been a few days since she’s been here and she would do anything for Aizen, she had become immensely strong. People around her was starting to respect her and would bow when she walked by.
Zuri was nervous about who she had to kill, but if it would prevent her from killing her parents she would gladly do anything, but she would always have this image inside her.
Coming upon a room with the door slightly ajar she couldn’t help but look inside, but when she did she gasped and covered her mouth at the site, in the room was Inoue.
“Inoue?” Zuri spoke walking into the room.
Inoue turned to Zuri and her eyes widened “Zuri!”
Inoue jumped into Zuri’s arms and hugged her, Zuri returned the hug but she couldn’t help but feel like she was meant to kill Inoue, but then she realised that it had only been a few days not a week.
“What are you doing here?” Zuri asked Inoue pulling back from their hug.
“Aizen forced me to come here” Inoue mumbled looking down, “When you left, Commander Yamamoto said you left voluntarily and were known as a traitor, but I know you didn’t!”
Zuri sighed feeling guilty, if only Inoue and others knew that she came here on her own so she could become stronger and protect those she loved.
“Hm” Was all Zuri’s reply as she took looked at the ground feeling tears prick at her eyes.
