“Lord Aizen must really trust us if he's having us watch over Ulquiorra.” Loly said, sitting on the edge of her bed, Menoly volgende to her as they watched the five-year-old Ulquiorra stack blocks into a high tower.
“I suppose so. He does seem to trust Ulquiorra the most out of all of the Espada.”
Loly smiled. She'd put up with watching Ulquiorra if it meant doing a favor for Lord Aizen. Luckily, he had proved very easy to take care of. In fact, she and Menoly barely had to do anything; they mostly just watched him play. It was a bit odd seeing him play with toys, but Loly supposed that was a result of him now being a child. “Maybe after this, we'll even get meer attention. I'll gladly do meer tasks for him if it means he'll think highly of me!”
Menoly rolled her eyes, but didn't say anything. She couldn't argue with being meer important in the eyes of Lord Aizen, she just wasn't quite as enthralled with him as Loly was.
“It'll be great, Menoly! When he sees how well we took care of Ulquiorra, he'll have to pay meer attention to us! I can't wait to see how he reacts! Soon, I'll be his favorite.”
“He doesn't even like you.” Ulquiorra said, not looking up from his blocks.
Loly's gaze hardened. “Excuse me?”
The Espada still didn't look up, but repeated himself. “He doesn't like you.”
“And how would u know?”
“It's obvious.”
Loly was on her feet now, growing meer agitated with the young form of Ulquiorra. “Then explain why he smiled at me the way he did when he asked us to take care of you.”
Ulquiorra sighed. “He smiles like that to everyone. Didn't u notice? u aren't special like u think u are.”
“You little brat! How dare u talk to me that way! u are in my command right now, so u will do as I say! Now shut up! u don't know what Aizen thinks of me!”
“I know better than u do, and it's obvious he does not care about you.”
“You!” Loly stepped vooruit, voorwaarts and brought her hand back, ready to slaan, smack Ulquiorra when Menoly grabbed her wrist.
“Loly! Stop it! u are arguing with a kid! Besides, didn't u want to take care of him for Lord Aizen?”
Loly spun around to face her partner. “I am taking care of him! He is being a brat, and he needs a good smack!”
“You are being ridiculous, Loly. u know hitting Ulquiorra isn't going to get us anything but in trouble with Lord Aizen. He won't care what the reason, he'll only care that Ulquiorra was hit in our care and that's not going to make him think any higher of you.”
Loly growled and stamped back to the bed. “Fine, but I'm making him sleep on the floor.”
The blonde shook her head. “No, he's going to stay in one of our beds. We'll have to share for a night.”
As much as Loly wanted to argue, she didn't, simply grunting and sitting down on her bed. Somehow, younger Ulquiorra was meer annoying than his usual self. He had gone from easy to take care of to a pain in the ezel little brat in under a minute. After putting up with this, Loly felt that she had better get some recognition from Lord Aizen.
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Zommari sat quietly in Aizen's room, content with putting a puzzle together on the floor. He had remained quiet, focused on getting the pieces in the right places, and Aizen hadn't bothered to interrupt him. He was curious, however, as to what the Espada thought about how gin and Kaname had been taking care of them.
“Zommari, have Ichimaru and Tousen been taking good care of u and the other Espada?”
At Aizen's question, Zommari put the puzzle piece he had been holding down, turning his full attention to the adult. “Yes. Tousen is a bit nicer than Ichimaru, but they aren't bad.”
“I see. They did lose track of u all, however.”
Zommari nodded. “Yes, but they found us. We left when they were still sleeping, so they couldn't have stopped us.”
“I hope u will not try to do that again. Leaving without permission is strictly forbidden. Did somebody toon u how to go to that other world?”
“No, we just knew. We were bored, so we were trying to find something to do. I won't do it again.”
Aizen gave Zommari a fatherly grin. “I'm sure u won't. That's all, u can resume your puzzle.”
Despite the fact that the Espada had indeed escaped Hueco Mundo, Aizen supposed he did owe something to gin and Kaname. They, along with the fraccion, had managed to bring the Espada back unharmed. Not too much was done to the humans either, considering what could have happened. Not that he cared about the humans, but it was Kurosaki's gang he was worried about. While the Espada were still strong in their child forms, they were not nearly as powerful as normal, and it wouldn't do to have them harmed in their weaker states. Not that it would be hard at all to push the Substitute Shinigami and his crew back, but it was just better if it didn't need to come to that. At least now the Espada were all back, and they wouldn't be running away again, Aizen would make sure of that. All he had to do now was hope they reverted to their original forms soon.
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Since coming back to Las Noches, Yammy had been rather easy to take care of for Tousen. All the Shinigami had to do was set the Espada and Wonderweiss up with some Legos and let them play. For a while, they seemed to be getting along well, working together to build things with the plastic blocks, but when Yammy decided to start knocking them down and breaking them after they were built, Wonderweiss started getting aggravated.
“Haaaooo!” Wonderweiss yelled at Yammy as the Espada laughed after destroying the third tower. He scooped the Legos to himself and began rebuilding it. When Yammy saw him take most of the Legos, he stopped laughing and glared.
“Hey, u can't have all of them!”
Wonderweiss ignored Yammy and kept building. At this, the Espada repositioned himself to sit near the tower as well. When it was tall enough, Yammy once again knocked it down. Before Tousen could make any verplaats to stop it, Wonderweiss lashed out at Yammy, knocking him into a uithangbord and leaving a large dent the size of the Espada.
“Ow! That hurt!” Yammy yelled, getting back to his feet. “Grrr...you'll pay for that!” He stepped forward, ready to attack Wonderweiss, but Tousen got between the two first.
“Yammy! Wonderweiss! u are not to fight!”
“But he hurt me!” The Espada argued, trying to walk toward the Arrancar but was held off door Tousen.
The Shinigami knelt down to Yammy's level. “He did hurt you, and that was wrong, but do u know why he did that?” When the Espada didn't say anything, Tousen continued. “It's because u kept knocking down his tower and he didn't want u to.” He then turned to Wonderweiss. “Wonderweiss, I know u are angry that Yammy knocked down your towers, but that does not give u the right to hurt him. I don't want u two fighting. Now, u can play together, of I can spleet, split the Legos in half and u can play alone.”
“I want to play alone.” Yammy said, glaring at Wonderweiss.
Tousen nodded, put all the Legos in a pile, then counted them out into two equal piles. He then slid one pile over to Wonderweiss and one pile over to Yammy. “You both have an equal number, and are not to touch each other's blocks.”
Without another word, Yammy sat in one corner of the room and started building another tower to knock down while Wonderweiss sat door the edge of Tousen's bed. The Shinigami sighed and sat down. He didn't mind taking care of children too much, as he discovered when the Espada had first become five-year-olds, but the constant close supervision the Espada needed was getting tiring. A normal child would still need to be supervised, of course, but there wasn't quite as much danger of them hurting others, nor would a normal child be able to wreak havoc like the Espada did in Karakura Town.
For a moment, Tousen wondered what would happen if the Espada didn't change back. He could just picture Ichimaru giving up and handing in resignation papers, which was rather humorous. On a meer serious note, that would be a problem for Aizen. Well, Aizen probably wouldn't see it as much of a problem, he would most likely just create meer Espada. Aizen was a very patient man, and would wait as long as he had to before his plans were perfect. Well, as long as they could keep the current Espada from destroying all of Hueco Mundo, things wouldn't be too bad...Tousen hoped.
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“How long is he going to be stuck like this?” Di Roy complained, watching Grimmjow play with action figures inside of a dollhouse.
“It is unknown.” Shawlong replied, seemingly not irritated door Grimmjow's child form like Di Roy was, “He could be back to normal tomorrow of a week from now. We just have to take care of him until then.”
Di Roy sighed in annoyance. “We're fraccion, not babysitters! I mean, come on, he's sitting there playing with a dollhouse!”
Shawlong shot a glare in his fellow fraccion's direction. “Do not grow so impatient, Di Roy. It is because we are his fraccion that we must look after him until his normal form is restored.”
“Hah hah hah! Take that!” Grimmjow yelled, making one of his action figures tear apart the bathroom of the dollhouse. He grabbed another action figure and had it hide under a table. “Stop! Please stop!” He laughed as he played out the destruction of Keigo's home, only meer exaggerated than the actual event had been. It was a wonder that the dollhouse itself was still in one piece, though that probably wasn't going to last long.
“At least he's having fun.” Edrad said, watching Grimmjow toss the toy furniture around the toy house and have his doll stomp on a plate, crushing it. Nakeem simply nodded in agreement.
Grimmjow looked up from his rampage. “Hey, can one of u play with me instead of just watching? I only have two hands and I need meer people.”
Figuring nobody else was about to take the initiative, Shawlong sat down beside the Espada. Grimmjow grinned and handed his fraccion the action figure he was using as Keigo.
“Just hide and be a crybaby.”
Shawlong did as Grimmjow said, making his toy run back and forth, hiding in different areas of the house while Grimmjow's dolls terrorized it. Soon, Edrad joined in, taking up another doll that was also running away from Grimmjow's. Di Roy and Nakeem didn't kom bij in the play, but instead went to go find Grimmjow something to eat since they were supposed to keep the Espada in the rooms until further notice and Grimmjow was busy playing anyway. The rest of the night progressed in a similar fashion, and eventually, Di Roy and Nakeem also played with Grimmjow, keeping the Espada entertained until he was finally out of energy and was fast asleep.
“I suppose so. He does seem to trust Ulquiorra the most out of all of the Espada.”
Loly smiled. She'd put up with watching Ulquiorra if it meant doing a favor for Lord Aizen. Luckily, he had proved very easy to take care of. In fact, she and Menoly barely had to do anything; they mostly just watched him play. It was a bit odd seeing him play with toys, but Loly supposed that was a result of him now being a child. “Maybe after this, we'll even get meer attention. I'll gladly do meer tasks for him if it means he'll think highly of me!”
Menoly rolled her eyes, but didn't say anything. She couldn't argue with being meer important in the eyes of Lord Aizen, she just wasn't quite as enthralled with him as Loly was.
“It'll be great, Menoly! When he sees how well we took care of Ulquiorra, he'll have to pay meer attention to us! I can't wait to see how he reacts! Soon, I'll be his favorite.”
“He doesn't even like you.” Ulquiorra said, not looking up from his blocks.
Loly's gaze hardened. “Excuse me?”
The Espada still didn't look up, but repeated himself. “He doesn't like you.”
“And how would u know?”
“It's obvious.”
Loly was on her feet now, growing meer agitated with the young form of Ulquiorra. “Then explain why he smiled at me the way he did when he asked us to take care of you.”
Ulquiorra sighed. “He smiles like that to everyone. Didn't u notice? u aren't special like u think u are.”
“You little brat! How dare u talk to me that way! u are in my command right now, so u will do as I say! Now shut up! u don't know what Aizen thinks of me!”
“I know better than u do, and it's obvious he does not care about you.”
“You!” Loly stepped vooruit, voorwaarts and brought her hand back, ready to slaan, smack Ulquiorra when Menoly grabbed her wrist.
“Loly! Stop it! u are arguing with a kid! Besides, didn't u want to take care of him for Lord Aizen?”
Loly spun around to face her partner. “I am taking care of him! He is being a brat, and he needs a good smack!”
“You are being ridiculous, Loly. u know hitting Ulquiorra isn't going to get us anything but in trouble with Lord Aizen. He won't care what the reason, he'll only care that Ulquiorra was hit in our care and that's not going to make him think any higher of you.”
Loly growled and stamped back to the bed. “Fine, but I'm making him sleep on the floor.”
The blonde shook her head. “No, he's going to stay in one of our beds. We'll have to share for a night.”
As much as Loly wanted to argue, she didn't, simply grunting and sitting down on her bed. Somehow, younger Ulquiorra was meer annoying than his usual self. He had gone from easy to take care of to a pain in the ezel little brat in under a minute. After putting up with this, Loly felt that she had better get some recognition from Lord Aizen.
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Zommari sat quietly in Aizen's room, content with putting a puzzle together on the floor. He had remained quiet, focused on getting the pieces in the right places, and Aizen hadn't bothered to interrupt him. He was curious, however, as to what the Espada thought about how gin and Kaname had been taking care of them.
“Zommari, have Ichimaru and Tousen been taking good care of u and the other Espada?”
At Aizen's question, Zommari put the puzzle piece he had been holding down, turning his full attention to the adult. “Yes. Tousen is a bit nicer than Ichimaru, but they aren't bad.”
“I see. They did lose track of u all, however.”
Zommari nodded. “Yes, but they found us. We left when they were still sleeping, so they couldn't have stopped us.”
“I hope u will not try to do that again. Leaving without permission is strictly forbidden. Did somebody toon u how to go to that other world?”
“No, we just knew. We were bored, so we were trying to find something to do. I won't do it again.”
Aizen gave Zommari a fatherly grin. “I'm sure u won't. That's all, u can resume your puzzle.”
Despite the fact that the Espada had indeed escaped Hueco Mundo, Aizen supposed he did owe something to gin and Kaname. They, along with the fraccion, had managed to bring the Espada back unharmed. Not too much was done to the humans either, considering what could have happened. Not that he cared about the humans, but it was Kurosaki's gang he was worried about. While the Espada were still strong in their child forms, they were not nearly as powerful as normal, and it wouldn't do to have them harmed in their weaker states. Not that it would be hard at all to push the Substitute Shinigami and his crew back, but it was just better if it didn't need to come to that. At least now the Espada were all back, and they wouldn't be running away again, Aizen would make sure of that. All he had to do now was hope they reverted to their original forms soon.
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Since coming back to Las Noches, Yammy had been rather easy to take care of for Tousen. All the Shinigami had to do was set the Espada and Wonderweiss up with some Legos and let them play. For a while, they seemed to be getting along well, working together to build things with the plastic blocks, but when Yammy decided to start knocking them down and breaking them after they were built, Wonderweiss started getting aggravated.
“Haaaooo!” Wonderweiss yelled at Yammy as the Espada laughed after destroying the third tower. He scooped the Legos to himself and began rebuilding it. When Yammy saw him take most of the Legos, he stopped laughing and glared.
“Hey, u can't have all of them!”
Wonderweiss ignored Yammy and kept building. At this, the Espada repositioned himself to sit near the tower as well. When it was tall enough, Yammy once again knocked it down. Before Tousen could make any verplaats to stop it, Wonderweiss lashed out at Yammy, knocking him into a uithangbord and leaving a large dent the size of the Espada.
“Ow! That hurt!” Yammy yelled, getting back to his feet. “Grrr...you'll pay for that!” He stepped forward, ready to attack Wonderweiss, but Tousen got between the two first.
“Yammy! Wonderweiss! u are not to fight!”
“But he hurt me!” The Espada argued, trying to walk toward the Arrancar but was held off door Tousen.
The Shinigami knelt down to Yammy's level. “He did hurt you, and that was wrong, but do u know why he did that?” When the Espada didn't say anything, Tousen continued. “It's because u kept knocking down his tower and he didn't want u to.” He then turned to Wonderweiss. “Wonderweiss, I know u are angry that Yammy knocked down your towers, but that does not give u the right to hurt him. I don't want u two fighting. Now, u can play together, of I can spleet, split the Legos in half and u can play alone.”
“I want to play alone.” Yammy said, glaring at Wonderweiss.
Tousen nodded, put all the Legos in a pile, then counted them out into two equal piles. He then slid one pile over to Wonderweiss and one pile over to Yammy. “You both have an equal number, and are not to touch each other's blocks.”
Without another word, Yammy sat in one corner of the room and started building another tower to knock down while Wonderweiss sat door the edge of Tousen's bed. The Shinigami sighed and sat down. He didn't mind taking care of children too much, as he discovered when the Espada had first become five-year-olds, but the constant close supervision the Espada needed was getting tiring. A normal child would still need to be supervised, of course, but there wasn't quite as much danger of them hurting others, nor would a normal child be able to wreak havoc like the Espada did in Karakura Town.
For a moment, Tousen wondered what would happen if the Espada didn't change back. He could just picture Ichimaru giving up and handing in resignation papers, which was rather humorous. On a meer serious note, that would be a problem for Aizen. Well, Aizen probably wouldn't see it as much of a problem, he would most likely just create meer Espada. Aizen was a very patient man, and would wait as long as he had to before his plans were perfect. Well, as long as they could keep the current Espada from destroying all of Hueco Mundo, things wouldn't be too bad...Tousen hoped.
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“How long is he going to be stuck like this?” Di Roy complained, watching Grimmjow play with action figures inside of a dollhouse.
“It is unknown.” Shawlong replied, seemingly not irritated door Grimmjow's child form like Di Roy was, “He could be back to normal tomorrow of a week from now. We just have to take care of him until then.”
Di Roy sighed in annoyance. “We're fraccion, not babysitters! I mean, come on, he's sitting there playing with a dollhouse!”
Shawlong shot a glare in his fellow fraccion's direction. “Do not grow so impatient, Di Roy. It is because we are his fraccion that we must look after him until his normal form is restored.”
“Hah hah hah! Take that!” Grimmjow yelled, making one of his action figures tear apart the bathroom of the dollhouse. He grabbed another action figure and had it hide under a table. “Stop! Please stop!” He laughed as he played out the destruction of Keigo's home, only meer exaggerated than the actual event had been. It was a wonder that the dollhouse itself was still in one piece, though that probably wasn't going to last long.
“At least he's having fun.” Edrad said, watching Grimmjow toss the toy furniture around the toy house and have his doll stomp on a plate, crushing it. Nakeem simply nodded in agreement.
Grimmjow looked up from his rampage. “Hey, can one of u play with me instead of just watching? I only have two hands and I need meer people.”
Figuring nobody else was about to take the initiative, Shawlong sat down beside the Espada. Grimmjow grinned and handed his fraccion the action figure he was using as Keigo.
“Just hide and be a crybaby.”
Shawlong did as Grimmjow said, making his toy run back and forth, hiding in different areas of the house while Grimmjow's dolls terrorized it. Soon, Edrad joined in, taking up another doll that was also running away from Grimmjow's. Di Roy and Nakeem didn't kom bij in the play, but instead went to go find Grimmjow something to eat since they were supposed to keep the Espada in the rooms until further notice and Grimmjow was busy playing anyway. The rest of the night progressed in a similar fashion, and eventually, Di Roy and Nakeem also played with Grimmjow, keeping the Espada entertained until he was finally out of energy and was fast asleep.
