"Let every eye negotiate for itself And trust no agent..."

[thelittlestbub]

Who: Doc Kurosaki isshinkurosaki and Jubilee thelittlestbub
Where: Doc's apartment
When: Today!
What: Jubilee wants Answers about this Aizen guy, and really hates being ordered around.
Warnings: Daddy issues? Possibly scoffing! Maybe dramatic clinging! But, no, not really.

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[isshinkurosaki]

Isshin answered the door with his sword drawn. He looked at Jubilee, then leaned out, scanning the hallway cautiously. When he was satisfied that there were no creepy boogey-men hiding out there, he put his zanpakutou back in the sheath, hand resting on the hilt.

He shut the door behind Jubilee as she came in, locking it up as tightly as he could, then leaning against it like that would prevent any intruders. The foolishness of what he'd done struck him and he moved away from the door.

"The... skinny?" Isshin was confused. He looked at her, then he shook his head. "Jubilee-san, you seem to be in perfect physical condition! Why are you asking me for diet pills? They can be quite dangerous, you know. And you don't need them." Why would she be asking him about something like that?

"I thought you came here to talk about Aizen?" Really, he was surprised at just how perky she was, considering the warning he'd given her. Wait. Isshin did a double take, staring at her. "Did he show you his zan - his katana??"

[thelittlestbub]

Jubilee blinked at him. "Diet pills?" She asked, completely confused. "I wouldn't take them..." She trailed off, trying to figure out what he was talking about.

Then she facepalmed. "The skinny means the news, the information, ya know?" She sighed and shook her head. How could he not know something like that? It was totally weird.

"I did come here to talk about Aizen." She confirmed, watching him, suddenly realizing that he was carrying a sword, and she hadn't seen him doing that before. "No, he didn't show me anything, it was completely voice chat." The perkiness had dropped and Jubilee was suddenly beyond cautious. Something was going on, and she didn't know about it and she didn't like it at all.

"Doc, what the heck is going on?"

[isshinkurosaki]

"Ohh." That made a lot more sense than Jubilee asking for diet pills out of the blue. A whole heck of a lot more sense! He shook his head, then ran his hand through his hair. "I've got it now! Sorry, sometimes your slang goes over my head."

He looked relieved when she told him that she hadn't seen Aizen take out his sword. He pointed at the couch, then sat down in a chair. "Okay. Sorry about that, Jubilee-san. That's great. Good. I'm glad to hear that. If he'd shown you his katana..." Isshin shook his head.

"All right. First - the reason I asked whether you saw his katana. I don't know if Zaraki-taichou has told you about zanpakutou... Has he told you about their different stages?" He thumbed the tassel of his own zanpakutou as he awaited Jubilee's answer.

He didn't think that Zaraki had told her much of anything about it. She didn't even know who Aizen was or why she should be avoiding him.

[thelittlestbub]

Jubilee perched on the edge of the couch. "Kenny and I don't talk much about our former lives." She shrugged. "He's not exactly the most talkative, and sometimes, there are questions you just shouldn't ask."

She nodded to the sword. Jubilee had seen more than one katana in her life and had learned to tell a tiny bit about quality. "I'm guessing they're more than just well wrought instruments?"

[isshinkurosaki]

'Former lives'? That was a strange way of talking about their lives. Or not talking about them, however you wanted to look at it. But he could have guessed that Zaraki hadn't told her much of anything about how Shinigami worked

[thelittlestbub]

Jubilee rested her elbows on her knees, listening as the Doc explained just what was going on. She mentally repeated the new terms to herself and wondered just what all this meant. It sounded Japanese - and shinigami was Japanese, thank you Logan - but all of it was a bit... out there.

Then, he got to the end and blinked. "Illusions and hypnosis?" She asked, incredulous. "That's the big deal?" Another blink. "No, seriously Doc, what's the deal? Because..." She shifted uncomfortably for a moment. "Well, he sounds a lot like," she paused counting on her fingers, "well, about three mutants I'm sure of, and that's not including the telepaths."

Jubilee rooted through her coat and pulled out a piece of gum. "I'm assuming you guys don't have telepathic shields where you're from?"

[isshinkurosaki]

He just looked at her, stunned that she was so nonchalant about Aizen's power. She just shrugged off what was, to him at least, the most worrying set of powers he had ever heard of. Isshin rubbed at his face, then peeked through his fingers at her.

No. She was still there, still surprised at him for being so worried about Aizen. He had to admit (if only to himself), it was kind of demoralizing to have a young woman shake off "You don't understand!" He protested. "It's complete hypnosis. And he doesn't make you think you're a chicken or whatever it is, he can make you think that someone else is him. You go to attack what you think is him and it turns out it's your best friend or something

[thelittlestbub]

Jubilee shook her head. "I know how powerful it is." She assured him. "I do..." She took a deep breath. "Back home, there was a woman named Dani. She made illusions as well. But her greatest power was the ability to make you see your greatest fear." She rubbed a hand over her face. "She could make you experience that fear, possibly to death."

Jubilee wasn't certain, but she was pretty sure.

"Then there were ones like the Shadow King." Her hands clenched. "He could control your mind and bend you to his will no matter what you did to fight him. Make you see things, experience things, smell things that weren't really there, but were real to you." Jubilee couldn't look at him. "He would've made me kill Dad. And I would've done it, unable to fight him, but Dad managed to stop me."

She drew another deep breath and looked up at him. "But there are ways to fight. Ways to protect your mind from things like that. And I've been trained in them."