Standing before Uryu was a small boy of 5 years old. His chalk-pale skin was a stark contrast to his ebony hair. His green eyes didn't hold the curious sparkle common in most children. Yet, despite his সামগ্রিক appearance of a human child, he had a reiatsu that matched what was at the scene of the accident exactly.

"Eh? A kid?!" Kon said, staring at the child in disbelief. "Look, kid, I don't know what আপনি did bu-ARGH!" He covered his face and stepped back after being punched দ্বারা the back of Uryu's fist.

Uryu kneeled on the ground so that he was eye level with the boy, hoping to figure out what was going on দ্বারা talking to him. "Are আপনি lost?"

The boy ব্যক্ত nothing, instead slowly raising his finger, pointing at the three standing before him. A small, green light began forming at the tip of his finger. Uryu's eyes widened. That was...a Cero!

"Get out of the way!" He yelled to the two mod-souls, half-pushing them away just before the green Cero was fired. There was obviously no talking to...whatever this kid was. Uryu held his arm out, his Quincy bow forming in his hand. Good thing nobody was nearby. The child, however, didn't look intimidated in the least. Before Uryu had a chance to realize what was going on, the child vanished, suddenly behind the Quincy using a step very similar to Shunpo. Uryu fell অগ্রবর্তী as he was kicked in the back with a force equivalent to that of a strong adult.

Getting back to his feet, Uryu fired an অনুষ্ঠান- অ্যারো at the kid. The অনুষ্ঠান- অ্যারো hit the ground as the child once again stepped aside far too quickly. The kid was fast...and strong. How could a small body contain so much power?

"Pickin' on a kid? Why, that's terrible."

Uryu spun around, gasping in disbelief when he found the উৎস of the voice. "You!"

Standing behind him was Ichimaru, former Captain of Squad 3.

"Hey. It's been a while." Ichimaru ব্যক্ত with a small wave.

Uryu glared, pointing his bow in the Shinigami's direction. "What are আপনি doing here?"

"What am I doing? It's আরো like what are আপনি doing, tryin' ta fight with a little kid!"

"Don't give me that." Uryu growled. "Tell me what আপনি and this...kid are doing here."

Ichimaru put his finger to his chin, as if thinking about whether অথবা not he was going to say anything. "Hmmm...nah, I don't think আপনি need ta know."

The Quincy finally gave up conversation and shot several arrows at Ichimaru. The Shinigami only smiled and dodged, appearing behind Uryu. Uryu spun around, ready to আগুন again, but Ichimaru grabbed his wrist.

"I should turn ya in for attempted murder. Tell 'em ya caused that explosion then tried ta kill a kid. They're panicked, so they won't bother ta ask questions."

"What are আপনি trying to accomplish?"

"Accomplish? Hmmm...is world domination what ya wanna hear? Anyway, I have ta get goin'. No time to play." He released his grip on Ishida and walked over to Ulquiorra, who had been simply watching the entire time. Hoping to take advantage while Ichimaru's back was turned, Uryu released several arrows, once of which barely missed Ichimaru's head.

Ichimaru sighed. "Can't just make it easy, can ya? Oh well, your choice." He turned around, his sword drawn. "Shoot 'im dead, Shinso."

Ishida attempted to dodge the attack, but Ichimaru's sword still managed to impale his right shoulder, knocking him back and pinning him to a tree. When Shinso retracted, Ichimaru turned his attention back to the small Espada.

"C'mon, let's go. I wanna get back home. Aizen's waitin'" He picked up Ulquiorra, who didn't resist, and took off, leaving Ishida beside the tree, clutching his shoulder and wondering what was going on.


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"Ichigo!" Rukia called, signaling for him to come over.

"What is it, Rukia?"

"Can আপনি feel it? A reiatsu similar to that from the explosion, it's nearby."

Ichigo stopped for a moment, trying to find the reiatsu Rukia was talking about. She was right. Not too far from where they were standing was an energy similar to that of a Hollow's, only আরো powerful. He nodded. "Yeah, I feel it."

The two searched the outskirts of the crowd for the উৎস of the reiatsu. There were still a lot of people gathered around, so it was slightly difficult to pinpoint exactly who it was coming from. From among the crowd, a little boy with dark skin and a bald head turned to Rukia. At first, she figured he just happened to be looking in her direction, but he kept staring right at her. As he approached her, she realized he was the one they had been looking for.

"I'm looking for somebody." The little boy said, "Can আপনি help me?"

Rukia opened her mouth to speak, but couldn't seem to find her voice. What was this child? He didn't seem to have any bad intentions, but if he was a normal human child, there was no way he should be able to se her, never mind his reiatsu level.

"Can you?" He repeated, breaking Rukia out of her thoughts.

"It's too crowded to talk here, could আপনি follow us somewhere with less people?" Rukia asked, hoping the boy would agree. If people saw him talking to thin air, they would think something was wrong and probably take him away.

The boy nodded. Rukia called to Ichigo, and the three found an area behind a building where there were no people around. Rukia was surprised the boy followed them at all, but he didn't seem scared at all. Rukia kneeled down so she was at the boy's eye level while Ichigo remained standing, watching carefully.

"Now, who is it আপনি are looking for?" She asked as calmly as she could.

"A man with brown hair and brown eyes. His name is Aizen."

The Shinigami both froze, staring at the boy. He blinked, looking back and forth between them as if trying to discern if he did something wrong.

"Rukia..." Ichigo muttered, not taking his eyes off the boy.

"I know, but what can we do? He doesn't seem to have any ill intentions..."

"You can give him to me."

Ichigo and Rukia tore their gaze away from the boy and to the man that had spoken.

"Tousen!" Ichigo yelled, grabbing the hilt of his sword, ready to fight.

The ex-Captain held up a hand. "I'm not here to fight, I just want the boy."

"What is he to you?" The substitute Shinigami asked, not taking his hand of his sword.

"That...is none of your concern. Zommari, come."

The boy nodded, turned his back to the Shinigami, and followed Tousen around the corner and out of sight.

"Wait!" Ichigo called after the two, jumping অগ্রবর্তী and meaning to go after them, but Rukia threw her arm out in front of him, stopping him. "What are আপনি doing? We have to stop them-"

"Ichigo!" Rukia yelled, silencing the substitute Shinigami. "We can't just fight them here, in the middle of Kurakara. He wasn't here to fight us, so we will not give him one."

Ichigo gave a frustrated sigh. He hated to admit it, but Rukia was right. As much as he wanted to chase after Tousen and that kid, he couldn't start a fight here, it would panic the people even আরো and somebody could get hurt. "Alright, let's go find Ishida."


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Gasps and murmurs followed the two men walking down the street. Males looked disgusted, females looked horrified. All eyes turned to them, though usually not for very long. Some people seemed to have a hard time looking away, despite how scared they were. It was one of those sights that, for some reason, kept drawing one's gaze even though it hurt to look at.

"Ah, just listen to the gasps of amazement as they gaze upon my beauty!" One of the men said. His short-sleeved tight শার্ট just barely covered his chest, প্রদর্শিত হচ্ছে off all the muscles of his abdomen. His pants were worn about as low as was decent.

"No es exacto, Charlotte. I think they are scared, not amazed." The সেকেন্ড man said. He was skinny and fully clothed, unlike the one beside him. In fact, he was almost normal looking, other than the fact his blond hair reached his waist and it looked as if he had purple eye-shadow around both eyes.

"Hah! What do আপনি know about beauty, Findor?"

A young girl and her mother passed by, the former staring at পুডিংবিশেষ with a mixture of terror and confusion. The Arrancar winked and blew a চুম্বন to her. The little girl burst into tears, clinging to her mother's skirt.

"Now আপনি are making kids cry." Findor said. He sighed. "And we still haven't found His Majesty. We probably would have found him দ্বারা now, if আপনি hadn't insisted on going to that spa."

"But they made me so beautiful! My skin, it's so soft! আপনি would have done well to come in too! See how soft my skin is, touch it!"

"I don't want to."

"Come now, touch it!"

"I'm not going to touch it."

"Touch it!" পুডিংবিশেষ yelled, grabbing his fellow fraccion's wrist. The smaller man resisted, trying to pull away. দ্বারা now, all human activity had ceased as everyone nearby stared at the two gender-confused men, struggling with each other in the middle of the sidewalk.

"Excuse me, what are আপনি two doing?!" A man's voice said, stepping out of a ভান্দার and in front of the two. "No wait, I don't want to know what আপনি are doing, just remove yourselves from in front of my store."

Findor and পুডিংবিশেষ stopped, taking a step away from each other and turning to the man.

"Actually, we are looking for a child." The blond explained.

The man raised an eyebrow. "A child?"

"Exacta."

"Exacta? আপনি two aren't from around here, are you?"

"Exacta!"

The man looked about ready to kick the two off the sidewalk and let them be run over. "Look, I haven't seen a stray kid, but if there's any child in the care of আপনি two, I hope a protection agency has found him already, now get out of here অথবা I'm calling the cops!"

"Let's go, Charlotte." Findor said, walking দ্বারা the man. "I don't think His Majesty is here anyway."

পুডিংবিশেষ flipped his hair as he walked by, following Findor. He hoped they found Barragan soon. These humans just couldn't understand true beauty, and he was getting tired of being surrounded দ্বারা ugly people.

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"You there! I'm hungry! I want a snack! Hey! Don't walk away! Fine. You, with the ugly little dog, yes you, get me something to eat!"

Standing atop a statue near the entrance to the park, Barragan shouted orders at anybody passing by. Much to his dismay, however, nobody was listening.

"I am the King and আপনি are my servants! আপনি must listen to me! Obey me!"

"Did somebody call the police?" A woman asked, looking up at the 5-year-old boy demanding everyone's attention.

"I did." Another woman said, holding up her cell phone. "They should be here any minute."

Sure enough, a couple মিনিট later, a police car pulled up and two officers stepped out of their car.

"What seems to be the trouble here?"

The woman who called spoke up, "Well, Officers, this child is standing on a statue demanding people do to things for him. I'm not sure how he got there অথবা where his parents are, but something needs to be done."

The two men stepped up to the statue and looked up at Barragan, who pointed at them.

"You two! I am thirsty from yelling. Get me a drink."

"Boy, আপনি need to come down from there."

"No, আপনি need to get me a drink."

"No, আপনি need to come down from there."

"I ব্যক্ত get me a drink!"

"And I ব্যক্ত come down from there!"

The officer's partner shook his head. Was a grown man seriously arguing with a five বছর old? "Alright, enough!" He yelled, silencing them both. "You, little boy, need to come down. Now."

Barragan crossed his arms and sat stubbornly. "No."

The officer sighed. "If আপনি don't come down, we will get you. Please just make it easy and come down. We can catch আপনি if আপনি have to jump."

"No."

The man gave an aggravated sigh. Out of all the things he could be doing right now, he had to get a little kid from a statue? He was ready to climb up there himself to grab the child when a voice called out from behind him.

"Your Majesty, there আপনি are!"

"Findor! Where have আপনি been? These people have not been listening to a word I've said!"

The blond Arrancar bowed. "I'm sorry to hear আপনি are displeased. If আপনি would come with me now, we can get আপনি whatever it is আপনি need."

Barragan nodded. "Catch me!" He commanded, then jumped down into Findor's arms.

The police officers couldn't believe what they were seeing. The সেকেন্ড one was the first to speak. "Are আপনি in charge of this child?"

"Exacta." The blond replied as Barragan climbed onto his shoulders.

"First off, আপনি need to keep better track of this kid. Secondly, why are আপনি treating him like a king? No wonder the kid is so demanding!"

Findor sighed. "Sorry, I don't have time to talk, gotta go."

The first policeman grabbed Findor's arm. "Hey, wait up there, buddy. We can't just let আপনি go like that."

Findor turned to Charlotte, who he had left behind in attempt to make the recovery go a bit আরো smoothly. Apparently, that didn't work. The good thing was, he had another solution to the problem. "Hey, Charlotte, why don't আপনি প্রদর্শনী these good men আপনি beauty?"

পুডিংবিশেষ looked up with a hopeful expression. "You mean...?"

"Exacta."

In an instant, পুডিংবিশেষ had his sword drawn. "Sparkle, Reina De Rosas!" he sang, spinning around in a বৃত্ত like a ballet dancer. A bright flash of পরাকাষ্ঠা temporarily blinded everyone, giving Findor the moment he needed to start running. Once the light had subsided, a collective gasp rose from everyone close enough to see what was going on.

পুডিংবিশেষ was now standing in high heels, a পরাকাষ্ঠা mantle flowing at his shoulders with a matching skirt. His শীর্ষ had gotten smaller and he was no longer wearing pants, barely covered দ্বারা an indescribable প্রবন্ধ of clothing. He spun in a বৃত্ত again, stopping with his arms on his hips.

"Behold, true beauty!"

For a moment, all was silent. পুডিংবিশেষ was sure they were all taking in his beauty, bathing in its rays. That is, until everyone started screaming insults, covering their children's eyes and demanding the man be taken away.

"You are under arrest for indecency!" The সেকেন্ড police officer yelled, doing his best to address পুডিংবিশেষ without looking much at him.

Charlotte's mouth dropped open. "What? Indecency? What blasphemy is this?! আপনি ugly people clearly do not know true beauty when আপনি see it!"

The people were in an uproar and nobody was listening. The two police officers looked torn between running away themselves and doing their jobs দ্বারা walking up to পুডিংবিশেষ and arresting him, afraid to touch him.

"Let's go!" Findor called, already too far away for the police to do anything about him.

পুডিংবিশেষ took off after his fellow fraccion, crying about how nobody appreciated beauty. Findor ignored him.

"Are আপনি okay, Your Majesty?"

"I am now."

"Good, we are going back home."

"And away from this place filled with ugly, ugly people!" পুডিংবিশেষ yelled. He wanted to leave and never come back.

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"Hey, Ulquiorra?" Ichimaru asked as he opened Garganta. "Why did ya cause that explosion anyway? Just curious."

"They were trash."

Trash, of course. He should have known better. Hopefully Aizen wouldn't be too angry over the destruction. Ichimaru was actually happy with it. The Quincy was so fun to tease since he was always so serious, it had made an otherwise horrible দিন a bit আরো interesting.

Sensing his fellow Shinigam nearby, Ichimaru turned around. "Ah, Tousen. Oh, আপনি got Zommari!"

Tousen nodded. "And আপনি have Ulquiorra. I believe পুডিংবিশেষ and Findor are on the way with Barragan as well."

Ichimaru gave a large sigh of relief. "Whew! That makes all of 'em! Good!" The sun was beginning to set now, it had taken them the entire দিন to find the Espada. Ichimaru concluded it was the longest দিন of his life- which technically wasn't even over yet. Though, at least now he wouldn't have to track down the brats. Maybe Aizen would let him tie them up. Then nobody would have to worry about them. Was there an Espada-proof rope? Maybe Szayel had something in his lab they could use.

Charlotte's voice could be heard as he approached, still ranting about how very ugly the town was. Good, that meant Barragan was back. With the final three Espada gathered, the Shinigami and fraccion walked through the portal and back home.