Exiled

Morning:

Kariuzu woke up, her face against a hard warm chest, arms wrapped tightly around her, and the familiar scent of him around her. Shinji Hirako, her previous Lieutenant, the love of her life. They had gotten together well before she became his captain. It became easy to be happy once she did. She snuggled closer to him, his arms tightening around her waist, his fingers digging into her hips. She had loved him, with his jokes, his carefree attitude, his reasoning, and his strength of character. He never backed down, and always spoke his mind, she appreciated that from him. She had fallen head over hills for him, despite everything. She looked up at his chin and found his staring at her, watching her contemplate her existence. They'd fallen asleep while she had cried in his arms, eventually laying longwise on the couch, her on top of him. She gingerly sat up on his lap, and his eyes widened, as the color darkened. 

"What are you doing?" His voice was husky as he spoke, his hands traveling along her thighs. 

"Nothing." She whispered, looking at him, feeling the pressure his slender fingers left along the outside of her thighs. "I just wanted to look at you."

"Is that so?" He whispered as he readjusted his body, and she felt him hard below her.

"Apparently you have something on your mind?" She said breathlessly. 

"When you sit like this, of course." He said, lifting his hips slightly under her, and she placed her hands on his chest to keep her balance.

"What are you doing, Shinji?" She asked, her fingers digging into his chest.

"Fuck, I don't really know at this point." He groaned, repeating the process, she delicately slid her hands into the opening of his robes, her fingers rooming across the expanse of his hard chest. He moaned again as her nails scraped against his skin, and just as he was about to slip his hands under her robe, a knock sounded at his door.

"Captain?" A soft voice called out and Shinji groaned, as Kariuzu chuckled breathlessly, standing up, she slid into the other room as he stood, adjusting his robes to hide his pressing arousal. 

"Yes." He responded and the door opened, revealing his Lieutenant Momo. "What is it, Momo?"

"I've gathered the officers, sure. They are waiting for your orders." Shinji glanced at his bedroom door, where Kariuzu had slipped off to, and sighed, stepping outside.

"I want you all to fortify each barrier, do not leave the Seireitei, just fortification. help Squad 12 set up means of communication, and Squad 4 set up routes for travel." Shinji ordered and waved his hands dismissing him. Slipping back into his quarters, he walked into his room, and found it empty, but heard the water running. He slipped inside the bathroom, to find her resting in the bathtub, bubbles up to her neck, eyes clothes as a moan slipped from her lips. He watched, knowing full well she had a hand buried between her legs. She whimpered as her back arched, the water sloshing around. He silently moved forward, kneeling beside her outside of the tub, as he slid her hands into the bathtub, to take over touching her, her eyes popping open, as she looked at him, his fingers finding the heat between her legs as he touched her. 

"Shinji." She moaned, as she watched his face, his robes getting soaked as he leaned over her in the tub, pressing his lips to her, kissing her roughly, as his fingers found her sweetest spot, and she gasped against his lips as his tongue invaded her mouth. She kissed back eagerly, sitting up, before grabbing at his shoulders, she climbed out of the tub, straddling his body. Her slick naked form as she reached for his sash, keeping his robe together, removing it, from the front of his body. She didn't waste any time, reaching between them, standing up his arousal, and sliding it inside her. They moaned together as they worked together and reached a climax that left them limp.

"We should get cleaned up." He whispered against her shoulder, and she nodded, sliding off him, as she reached for a towel drying herself off and putting her robe back on. She looked at him still, half-naked on the floor. He'd watched her, intently as she had dried off and changed, not moving an inch as he sat there. 

"What?" She whispered as he finally stood. He left his robes on the floor, as he slipped out of the room, reaching for a clean one. "Shinji?"

"I had forgotten." He replied, running a hand through his hair, looking at her. 

"Forgotten what?" She asked, but before he responded, a distant explosion sounded and they both ran to the door, looking out into the distance, smoke rising in the distance.

"That couldn't possibly be them already?" She supplied, but they both took off, flash step having them travel quickly until they reached the sight of the explosion. "What area is this?"

"The graveyard," Shinji muttered in anger. She looked at the area, the number of graves was astonishing. No wonder the squads seemed so empty. They were all here. 

"You traitor!" A voice shouted, and Kariuzu looked down seeing a familiar face. 

"Jo, I-" She started looking at the young girl in front of her, others started to gather, the number was too low. There were only 5 of them. 

"He said you were, he said you were lying, but we trusted you!" They were too busy staring at her, as Shinji stood near enough to defend against an attack, and the Stealth force surrounded them. 

"You are under arrest!" Sui-Feng shouted as her men closed in, and shackled the intruders. "Take them to the cells." 

"I'm coming with," Kariuzu stated, ad followed, despite Shinji reaching for her. Sui-Feng nodded as the quickly retreated to the Squad 2 prison cells. Once secured, Kariuzu stood in front of them.

"You are a liar," Jo uttered, the young boy with bright red hair looked her directly in the eyes.

"No, I'm a Soul Reaper. Head of the Shiba Clan. Previous Captain to squad 5, previous lieutenant to squad 2. I abandoned everything to find out why my officers were dying in the line of duty. Why my friends and family were suffering." Kariuzu stated, her head high. "I didn't want to hurt you, I wanted to know what you were planning. But I didn't want anyone else to get hurt."

"We were hurt, when you disregarded us to the Land of the Living," Jo demanded. 

"That isn't quite what happened, kid," Shunsui started coming out of the shadows. "All the captains back then were adamantly against the idea, this young lady was actually set on fire when she slapped the head captain." Shunsui supplied gesturing to Kariuzu, who blushed and tentatively touched her hair.

"So, you still did it."

"We have to follow orders, we take our orders from someone, who takes orders from someone else. The Soul King made the orders, we were ordered to fulfill them. We had no choice." Shunsui added.

"But think about it, Jo please?" Kariuzu added, stepping closer. "The virus was spreading so quickly, and we weren't finding any way to stop it. It would've taken everyone in the Soul Society, not just the Soul Reapers but every citizen inside. We had to stop the spread before it got worse before it took any more lives." Kariuzu supplied. 

"We understood that, but no one even tried." 

"We did try, but before we had no way to research the virus back then."

"How do you explain the research and development department?"

"That department was created 135 years ago, by a newly promoted captain. We didn't have the same resource back then." Shunsui added, as Shinji finally came into the prison to watch.

"Liar!" Jo shouted. 

"They aren't lying. We had no way to research the virus." Shinji finally spoke up, he was watching Kariuzu interact with them. He watched as her eyes widened at his voice but she didn't look at him. 

"We understand your anger, but we never wanted this either." Kariuzu supplied. 

"Doesn't matter, HE isn't going to stop, Kariuzu." The young boy supplied angrily.