I'm just Joe Black, baby, I write my symphony in the dark
Who: Aizen alapimp and Urahara so_heretohelp
When: Mid-afternoon, close to the end of term.
Where: Hawthorne University, Ancillary Arts Department.
What: Urahara decides to visit his favourite person.
Warnings: IDEK. PG13 just to be safe.
( if you can't feel me coming it's because I broke your heart )
When: Mid-afternoon, close to the end of term.
Where: Hawthorne University, Ancillary Arts Department.
What: Urahara decides to visit his favourite person.
Warnings: IDEK. PG13 just to be safe.
( if you can't feel me coming it's because I broke your heart )
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He would not allow this man to revel in the capture of someone so far beyond his reach. It was an impossibility in thought, let alone act.
And he hadn't brought Kyouka Suigetsu with him.
"Aa," he agreed. Raising a hand, he gestured to the kanji for Glory, the closest to hand as he stepped away from the sink. "Nutrition. Everything has a learning curve here. To be ( ... )
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"This one, for example," he continued, pointing out White Soldier. Given what Ishida had told him, he very well knew what it could mean. He consciously didn't shift his relaxed stance, yet became very aware of Benihime in his hand. Aizen didn't have Kyouka Suigetsu with him. Or could there be an illusion to make him think that? A large part of him wanted to bring this man down now, for all he had done and would do. But every instinct called for him to be cautious... so cautious he would be.
"What context did this one come out of?"
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He gestured to the scroll.
"A bright military, one with no need to cower as it marches forward." He smiles mildly. "Open to interpretation, of course."
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The smile then fell from his face and he looked at Aizen sharply from the beneath the rim of his hat. He voice was smooth and neutral as he asked the vital question,
"And where are the soldiers marching to? Where is your war now, Aizen?"
He did not want their battle to carry over to this foreign shore. But if the man had not left it behind...
And could he believe him if he said he had?
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Casually strolling toward his desk, he folded his arms and perched on the edge, watching Urahara sedately. Taking off his glasses, he gestured with the same hand to the classroom.
"I've been here a few months, long enough to establish a fond relationship with the students. Ishida-kun is doing a perfectly decent job of keeping an eye on me, his diligent surveillance is a thing to be praised. If anything should slip under the radar of my teachings here, he'll have you know post-haste."
Really, did they expect him to be nefarious using his position as a professor? The look he gave his nemesis was flat, at best. You'll find nothing of import in this room."Contrarily, the Espada are in Nueva Las Noches, the home I have created for them. Plain to see." Running a hand through his hair, he slid his glasses back into place, nudging them up the bridge of his nose. "My war is not with this ... pocket reality, a nexus withheld from the truth. Do you believe, for a single moment, that it is ( ... )
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His smile did not change, although the next part was more amusing. The thought that Ishida-kun would come to Kisuke 'post-haste' was pretty optimistic, in his opinion. The Quincy would ever be suspicious of Shinigami, and he was probably on some sort of top-ten list given how the boy had held back the other night.
The smile remained to answer the other man's flat stare. The man had been a well-respected teacher for many years before betraying Soul Society. Nothing could be taken for granted.
And just because his favoured arrancar were plain to see it didn't make them less dangerous. Indeed, it was quite likely they were meant to attract attention away from something else. Clamour in the East, Attack in the West."No," he answered lightly. A ruler who knew only the island might be satisfied, but one who knew that there was more would certainly stretch out. "You may not desire to rule it, but it might well be crushed in the wake of other ( ... )
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"What do you think I'm planning?"
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"Oh, now~! That's not fair! What if I told you something you hadn't thought of yet and thought it was such a brilliant idea that you just had to use it? Where would we be then?"
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"Would you say the Core is a tool or a weapon?"
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At the question he folded his fan back up and lightly tapped it against his chin, thoughtful.
"Anything has the potential to be both."
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Naming no names.
"The Core is, I suspect, entirely sentient. I tell you this because it's no great secret, just as the Darkness has a will all of its own."
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Even if that was no secret, he was being refreshingly forthcoming.
"So, does the Core see itself as a tool or a weapon?"
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"I can command the Darkness, yet her thrall over it never wavers. This entire dimension is able to be conditioned to do anything - even concede to Garganta."
A small smile hitched.
"With the right know-how."
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Did he just hear all that right?
"You do have a way with the ones others fear," Kisuke conceded with a light tone and wide smile. "First the Arrancar, and now this? I must admit I'm impressed."
He would have to investigate this on his own. Sentient Core, sentient Darkness...
"So, escape by Garganta." His smile deepens. "With the right know-how."
Had he been able to gather the means to do it himself? Or perhaps brought Mayuri into it? ...Or was Kisuke sitting before him as the final piece to his puzzle?
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Urahara was free to guess which category Sousuke fell into. Straightening a few papers on his desk, he gave the impression of letting his focus on the other man slip.
"You aren't enjoying your sentence here, I imagine. Trapped like a fly in a net and seeking answers from your enemy, is it because you've fallen so far from grace again? You should know the feeling, by now."
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