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 )
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 plans." A statement with just a hint of question. Would it be his plans?
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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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His lips turned up slightly into a grin at that last, and he was under no impression that the other man didn't see it. He did things like that often himself, after all.
"I'd imagine that the only ones who would enjoy their sentence here would be ones who had nothing to return to." A sigh. "I'm afraid I do, as you well know~"
And just whose fault was it for Kisuke's 'fall from grace', ne?
"Ah, landing in a strange place, completely surrounded by unfamiliar people, it is surely a natural reaction to seek out the ones you do know, even if they've screwed you over in the past~♪ Of course I would come to talk to my greatest rival!"
Because he knew that Aizen may very well have figured out more than Yoruichi-san and Mayuri combined. And both those two were very good at what they did.
It's just that when you went seeking information from your enemy, he had an unhappy tendency to not share everything~
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Or they were simply as obvious as they seemed, and if they were the first things that he brought up then it might give the impression they were the most important. If Urahara cared to think on this encounter in detail, later.
"Time-lines are surrounding us with unfamiliar people."
It was the single-most honest thing he had offered.
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"A whole city populated with improbability."
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"They shouldn't be here, but while they are, take advantage~♪"
Yes, be flexible enough to take advantage of any opportunity that presents itself, however small it seems.
And a city full of people from other worlds and time-lines was not small. And what use they could be... likely varied as much as the worlds they came from.
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"How callous of you. You've no intention of making new friends?"
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