The monster inside me

The Espadas

After a few days of lounging around and hanging with Aizen once he got those stupid meetings of his taken cared of he mentioned I needed to meet his army. I was nervous inside but excited at the same time as he led me to the throne room. Already I could feel several high reiatsu signatures as Aizen and I entered the throne room.

"Who is this woman Aizen?" I saw a blue haired make ask as he got a good look of me once Aizen and myself were in front of these individuals.

Aizen placed his hand on my shoulder, "Her name is Shizuki Inuruki, she used to be my lieutenant in the soul society, but now she's my queen. I strongly advise you give her the same amount of respect you treat me with understand?"

Some of the arrancars nodded as others scoffed a soft 'sure' as a response.

"What are your names?" I asked them all.

One by one they all introduced themselves to me being polite as they can being in Aizen's presence so they don't slip up and suffer punishment later. One of the espada, Grimmjow was his name that smirk of his wouldn't go away.

"Hey, Shizuki. You up for a training match with me?" Grimmjow asked then grins showing off his fangs.

I looked over at Aizen who had his eyes narrowed looking over at the sixth espada but gave a sigh then nodded his head once he looked at me. I looked back at Grimmjow with a smirk, "Yeah sure, we'll train outside, but it ends when either of us gets a wound. Got it?"

"Sure thing." He replies.

All of the esadas disappeared from the room as Aizen, Gin, Tosen and myself did the same and we all ended up at Hueco Mundo. I saw Grimmjow ten feet from me waiting with his zanpaktou resting on his shoulder with a satisfying grin on his face.

As I walked towards him I unsheathed my blade as my black spiritual pressure seeped out of me as I gave him a smile, "Let's go Grimmjow!"

He grinned more as we both ran towards each other and our blades clashed creating a shockwave and small fissures traveled along the ground from the impact.

"Not bad for a woman." Grimmjow said smirking.

"Not bad for a kitty." I said smirking back at him.

An angry tick mark appeared on his head as his blue spiritual pressure outlined his body, "what the hell did you just call me?!"

"Jeez are ya that deaf or something?" I replied back teasing him.

It seems Grimmjow got even madder and held out his hand, "Cero!!"

I blinked a few times, 'Cero?'

I had seconds to respond as a red blast of energy headed towards me and managed to dodge but barely, "That's new, never seen that attack before."

Grimmjow seemed to disappear after he used that attack on me and felt his spiritual pressure close by to reappear on my side to hopefully get a chance to slash and make this training session to end. I responded just in time to block his attempt.

He only grinned as I saw he had his hand aimed at my stomach and used a cero to fire it off as I coughed up blood and fell over on the ground on my hands and knees, "Next time don't insult me like that every again ya hear me."

Luckily I wasn't hurt that much but I wanted to prove to these espadas that I wasn't one to mess with. I slowly got up as I saw Grimmjow with a surprised look on his face. One of my eyes was the same as when half my sanity was in the hands of that dragon hollow...only this time it became bright yellow as my black spiritual pressure formed into a dragon behind me and roared at Grimmjow leaving him stunned at what's happening. Before he can blink I was already in front of him and slashed at his chest downwards making blood spew out from the wound I gave him.

"That makes us even and this training is over..." I said to him with a glare.

I could tell Grimm can barely stand up with how much power I used in that one attack but I wasn't gonna lose to him and make myself look like a weakling. I put away my sword by sheathing it and walked over to him as he widened his eyes backing away slightly as I blinked my eyes in confusion at his action. He's not scared of me is he? I continued walking towards him and gripped his arm, "Would you hold still I'm trying to heal you idiot!"

Grimmjow looked at me confused but calmed down slightly, "sorry...your pretty good though Shizuki."

I looked up at him as the outlines of my hands were black as I healed him, "Thanks you are too. We should do this again in the future."

He gave me a grin, "we'll go all out next time!"

I giggled, "maybe, but we'll see."

The others came by as some of the espadas gave me a small smile acknowledging my strength I used in the training session while others nodded.

Aizen walked over to put his hand on my shoulder, "Are you ok Shizuki?"

"Yeah I'm fine, we'll talk about this later ok?" I replied to him.

He sighed obviously a bit irritated at wanting to know more of this dragon hollow that seems to slowly seep its influence in the way I fight, "All right, the rest of you are dismissed to go about your business unless I call for a meeting."

Everyone around me nodded as they disappeared to head to their rooms or wander about the castle except for Grimmjow, Aizen and myself.

I saw that the wound I gave Grimm was healed but left a scar there instead, "Well the wound is gone but you have a scar instead."

Grimmjow stretched his arm a bit, "That's fine I'll see ya later and thanks Shizuki."

"No problem." I said giving him a small smile.

He disappeared away as I turned towards Aizen as he shook his head and gently grabbed my hand flash stepping us to our large room only for him to let go and closed the door.

"You wanna tell me now what's been going on with this dragon hollow of yours Shizuki?" Aizen asked in concern.

I looked over at him as my eye that was bright yellow changed back to normal, "He's influencing on my fighting skills. You must have seen the way I was acting as I got up when Grimmjow caught me in that surprise cero attack. I didn't act like I would and he was controlling me!"

Aizen widened his eyes slightly but then became serious, "You are going to get controlled by him permanently at this rate," he walked over and embraced me in a hug with his arms around my waist holding me close as his eyes held a sadness in to the point he might break down, "I don't wanna lose you to this monster Shizuki."

I hugged him back with my head turned to the side, "I know and I wanna become stronger so I can defeat this dragon hollow."

"I'll help train you as well Shizuki, but I won't hold back as well. I'll even have some of the espadas train you as well. For now we need to rest then we'll plan later tomorrow."

I nodded as I was beginning to feel sleepy. Aizen picked me up bridal style and gently placed me on our bed and tucked me in as I began sleeping. He took off his jacket then the top part of his kimono as he was shirtless and got under the covers to hold me close to his body. He let out a sigh then closed his eyes.

'Without you, I wouldn't be the man I am today.'Aizen thought to himself as he slept.