Chapter 22: Turn Back the Pendulum III (Raising Questions)

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A couple of days later, there were strange disappearances occurring throughout the soul society. It was strange, for many of us had no idea of what was going, and why.
I was aiding Squad 5 with field duties, and Hiyori, the Lieutenant of Squad 12, came running over to Captain Hirako. "Shinji! I need your help! Please!"
"Oh come now Hiyori.."
"Shinji... I'm serious... Lisa and the others...have turned..."
Meanwhile, Aizen was nowhere to be found.
"Turned...?" His facial expression changed to shock, and he ran off with Hiyori.

Meanwhile, I was in charge of the squad.
"Lady Kusonarii. What do you propose we do..?"
"Take those samples of the decomposed bodies, send them to Squad 12 for assessment."
"Yes ma'am!"
We began cleaning up the bodies, and continued forward with assessment and continuous clean-up.
To my surprise, I heard a scream.
I ran in the direction of the scream as I informed the squad to continue their clean up. I stopped dead in my tracks to see a mess of blood, and Lieutenant Aizen, some young soul reaper and Tosen from Squad 8, standing over Captain Hirako and Hiyori. I wanted to scream, but instead I remained quiet, concealing my spiritual pressure.
White masks began to form on their faces and they went crazy, trying to attack Aizen and the others.
"Success.."  I heard Aizen say as he cut them down.
"Stop it, right there."  I heard a familiar voice call out. A man all dressed in black stepped forward, but I couldn't sense his spiritual pressure.
"Kisuke..Tessai.. and Yourichi?!"
"I expected better from him...."
Kisuke frowned after Souske ran off.
I wasn't sure why all of this was going on, but.. I surely had seen.. my comrades.. hollowfied.
I was scared, I didn't know what to do.
Should I tell someone? Or would that get me into trouble.
This was a difficult decision for me.
I ran off to go find Byakuya and tell him.
Meanwhile, Kisuke Urahara, Tessai, and Yourichi has taken my hollowfied comrades away and they were taken away.
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I ran into the Kuchiki manor.
"BYAKUYA!!"
Ginrei was sitting outside, looking at me in shock. "Lady Hisana what is the meaning of this?!"
"Grandpa Ginrei.. where is Byakuya...?"
"He's in his room right now, why do you ask?"
"My.. comrades.. they were.."
"Yes..?"
"Hollowfied... and they were taken away.."
"What?! Are you sure of this..?"
"Yes... Souske Aizen and two other people were responsible for this..."
"Let's go get Byakuya."
We got Byakuya. "So.. these captains and lieutenants became...hollows?"
"Indirectly they did because of their soul chain being shattered. Souske did something to speed up the process, I think."
"Do you know where he is?"
"He disappeared." I frowned. "I don't know what else to do."
"Should we tell the head captain? Grandfather?"
"It seems that perhaps we should. Yet.. we must think this through carefully. We don't know what will happen if we do tell him."
"You're right.."  Byakuya sunk down in his seat.
This was one of the toughest things we could ever deal with.
The general questions of what we needed to do, or what we could do were on our minds as we spend the rest of the day thinking things though.

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