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[Locked to Kensei, Renji, and Ichigo]

Not a word. All three of you keep your damn heads down and dont say a word till something can be figured out.

You already did your stupid heroic shit for this year.

[Locked to Urahara and Yoruichi]

Please tell me that you covered your tracks, Kisuke, so that I dont have to worry about you getting busted for being involved.

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I just don't know what else to tell you. It has to be done.

The less of us that fall, the better. The fact that I'd be punished for something I actually did for once would be practically refreshing. Besides, there's no guarantee the penalty is death, anyway.

No way of knowing Aizen won't execute you just to be rid of you either.

He'd have done that a long time ago if he'd wanted to.

He'd rather let people live to toy with them. Killing me wouldn't benefit him.

Yeah, but offing you would please the fucking blue bloods. Offing Ichigo's symbolic. He's got shit to gain from it alright.

Whatever he'd gain or lose by killing me is irrelevant.

The fact is I'm the one that cut Szayel's throat and burned the body to ashes. I can't let someone else take the heat for it.

And don't expect me to stand around and let Aizen take more important people from me!

Well, what do you want me to do?? Turn my back on the man that saved my life? Be responsible for the unjust incarceration and punishment, however lax or severe it may be, of the head of the Gotei?

I don't have any other damned choices! I can't run from this!

I KNOW! I fucking KNOW you can't! I know Ukitake's too important and you owe him your life! I know this shit!

What the fuck do you want me to do, Kensei? Smile and nod and let you and my cousin go off and put your damn necks on the chopping block? I am not letting what happened to Kaien-nii happen to either of you!

...Kuukaku, what happened to your brother is completely different. He hadn't done anything to deserve what happened to him.

I did something I thought would benefit and protect everyone. Including you. And now we're being called on it.

I'm not expecting you to like this. It's a fucking lousy deal all around.

But until someone comes up with something or I get orders to do otherwise, my hands are tied.

[When she finally responds again, her voice is low and quiet. And for a woman like Kuukaku, quiet and stillness are nothing but a cloak for something deeper. There is no serenity in her tone, more like the deceptive quiet that precedes a hurricane coming ashore.]

Aizen's creations still killed him AND my sister - as they were doing what they thought was protecting everybody. That bastard Octava was his creation too, right? I...

And my hands are tied too, Kensei. My honor says I'm going to save you and Ichigo no matter what. So I guess we're just not gonna see eye to eye on this, are we?

I'll see you later, Kensei, wether you like it or not.

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