It used to be so easy...
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spira_rpThey'd got back late the night before.
It had been a long sojourn out into the world, but not a bad one. They'd been gone for over a month, and hadn't got into too much trouble, considering. Okay, so they'd met the Ryoka berserker and his fiends again, and failed to take them out, again, and Grimmjow had been scarred for his troubles, but that was pretty good going, for them. Technically, they were supposed to be out for Grimmjow's rehabilitation anyway. Grimmjow was only supposed to be getting back to fitness from the injuries he'd received when they'd met the Ryoka with Nel in tow, but he'd acquired another injury to work off. Not that anyone had explained that to Aizen, yet. That was going to be a fun job for Grimmjow and Yylfordt, later.
They'd also caught up with Kadaj, and ironed things out with him, and he'd met up with them a few times since. His hair had got too long, since he'd neglected to get it cut, but it wasn't as long as his bankai made his hair, now, and he'd matured a lot. It was a little bit frightening, really. Kadaj had been gone ever since the Midgar thing, and he'd grown up in that timespan, which at once felt like it had been forever, and like it had been barely weeks ago.
When they'd figured they probably couldn't, or shouldn't, put off going back any longer, they'd told Kadaj over the phone. They couldn't make him come back, but their employers could definitely demand their own returns. Plus they'd left Apache behind, because taking her was pushing it, and Tayuya missed her, even if Yylfordt pretended he didn't.
It had been too late for reunions when they had got back. Tayuya, Grimmjow, and Yylfordt had simply waltzed in, grabbed something to eat, and gone to bed.
It hadn't been early when Tayuya had woken up. She wasn't a morning person anyway, but she'd got up, showered, ended up sleeping for another hour, and then got dressed and made her way to the kitchen.
Now she was paying attention, the Palace felt different. There were new people here, again. They'd known someone was coming to take over the laboratories because Szayel had been told he couldn't have them. Tayuya was interested in who it was, only because they'd taken over her old home.
She hadn't reported to Kuja yet, either. She wasn't in a hurry. He'd know she was back, and the only information she had to give him consisted of 'Met Kadaj, he's okay, needs a haircut when you see him again though'. The important shit, naturally. She'd let Kadaj tell him about his bankai in his own time, and on his own terms. Kuja might want to know about the fights, but Kuja was less invested in the performance of the Ryoka versus Arrancar than Orochimaru had been, so he probably wouldn't want details of power levels and specific movesets employed.
She entered the kitchen looking freshly laundered and grumpy, because she needed caffeine to live, and something to eat. The room wasn't empty, and Tayuya waved at Apache as she schlepped her way to the kettle for caffeine.
Apache must have been so fucking bored, Tayuya thought. She knew she was when the Arrancar all fucked off on missions and she got left behind. At least she had Nel, though.
It had been a long sojourn out into the world, but not a bad one. They'd been gone for over a month, and hadn't got into too much trouble, considering. Okay, so they'd met the Ryoka berserker and his fiends again, and failed to take them out, again, and Grimmjow had been scarred for his troubles, but that was pretty good going, for them. Technically, they were supposed to be out for Grimmjow's rehabilitation anyway. Grimmjow was only supposed to be getting back to fitness from the injuries he'd received when they'd met the Ryoka with Nel in tow, but he'd acquired another injury to work off. Not that anyone had explained that to Aizen, yet. That was going to be a fun job for Grimmjow and Yylfordt, later.
They'd also caught up with Kadaj, and ironed things out with him, and he'd met up with them a few times since. His hair had got too long, since he'd neglected to get it cut, but it wasn't as long as his bankai made his hair, now, and he'd matured a lot. It was a little bit frightening, really. Kadaj had been gone ever since the Midgar thing, and he'd grown up in that timespan, which at once felt like it had been forever, and like it had been barely weeks ago.
When they'd figured they probably couldn't, or shouldn't, put off going back any longer, they'd told Kadaj over the phone. They couldn't make him come back, but their employers could definitely demand their own returns. Plus they'd left Apache behind, because taking her was pushing it, and Tayuya missed her, even if Yylfordt pretended he didn't.
It had been too late for reunions when they had got back. Tayuya, Grimmjow, and Yylfordt had simply waltzed in, grabbed something to eat, and gone to bed.
It hadn't been early when Tayuya had woken up. She wasn't a morning person anyway, but she'd got up, showered, ended up sleeping for another hour, and then got dressed and made her way to the kitchen.
Now she was paying attention, the Palace felt different. There were new people here, again. They'd known someone was coming to take over the laboratories because Szayel had been told he couldn't have them. Tayuya was interested in who it was, only because they'd taken over her old home.
She hadn't reported to Kuja yet, either. She wasn't in a hurry. He'd know she was back, and the only information she had to give him consisted of 'Met Kadaj, he's okay, needs a haircut when you see him again though'. The important shit, naturally. She'd let Kadaj tell him about his bankai in his own time, and on his own terms. Kuja might want to know about the fights, but Kuja was less invested in the performance of the Ryoka versus Arrancar than Orochimaru had been, so he probably wouldn't want details of power levels and specific movesets employed.
She entered the kitchen looking freshly laundered and grumpy, because she needed caffeine to live, and something to eat. The room wasn't empty, and Tayuya waved at Apache as she schlepped her way to the kettle for caffeine.
Apache must have been so fucking bored, Tayuya thought. She knew she was when the Arrancar all fucked off on missions and she got left behind. At least she had Nel, though.
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Date: 2015-12-22 09:34 pm (UTC)"We ran into the berserker and his friends again, the fire elemental one, and the chick?" She asked, checking Apache knew who she meant. "The red headed dickhead smacked Yylfordt with Venomtouch and floored him, I tried to take the fucker down with Bismarck and couldn't, and Grimmjow took on the berserker, again." She scowled, looking at Apache seriously. "That bastard used the fire elemental's fucking chakra to swing an attack at Grimmjow. He's got a fucking huge scar now."
She shook her head. "We split before anyone died, but you know how you come away from a bad fighting thinking of all the shit you could have done that would have meant you'd win?" Like if they'd all summoned, or if they'd had someone else with them, or if she'd hit them with Genjutsu, there were any number of things they could have done, and they hadn't. Tayuya looked particularly grumpy and took a mouthful of coffee, which was still far too hot, but whatever.
"They're both fine now," she added, "but no one's thrilled about explaining to your boss that they got in another fight with those dickheads."
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Date: 2015-12-22 09:47 pm (UTC)As usual, they had managed, somehow, to find their arch enemies when they had an entire world, both normal and floating continents, to choose from. The chances of it were tiny. Two groups of people coincidentally being in the same place at the same time? It was ridiculous, but nevertheless, it seemed to keep happening.
They needed to figure out another stomping ground.
"Damn," Apache said, unsure what to say. "I wanna say yes, but I don't get to get into any fights, since I always get left at home."
She sipped her coffee again, but dropped the joking tone when she spoke again.
"Luckily for them, I think Aizen's in a good mood after managing to recruit that other Ryoka," she told her. "He gets to take the credit since it was his minions, together with Pinky and Perky, who went to get him, so it makes him look good. It might soften the disappointment a bit."
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Date: 2015-12-22 10:02 pm (UTC)"That's lucky," she said, cheerily. "Because he won't be in a good mood after they tell him." Aizen had been losing patience with them scrapping while out and about anyway, and now Arrancar were getting seriously injured in the tussles. He was probably going to frown a lot at the very least.
"Kuja isn't exactly gonna be impressed either," she admitted, "but at least I can soften that one a shitload because we found Kadaj while we were out."
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Date: 2015-12-22 10:14 pm (UTC)She, unlike the others wasn't very close to him. She got on with Tayuya, because they were the two girls in Skite, and she knew Yylfordt and Grimmjow well because they were all Arrancar. Kadaj was... okay enough, but she still couldn't get past considering him 'a friend of her friends'. She hadn't seen much of him at all.
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Date: 2015-12-22 10:37 pm (UTC)Which had always put him in good company in Khamja. Kadaj had always been one of the more unpredictable ones, though, riding Kuja's coattails with no real opinions of his own and uncanny knack for pressing people's buttons.
And then it turned out he'd planned attacking Orochimaru, even though they'd planned differently between them. Dickhead.
"You should have seen Yylfordt when Kadaj told him he'd had to have the bike fixed by someone else," she said, with a mean grin. "He got all high and mighty Al Bhed dickhead, 'tell me it was an Al Bhed mechanic' and fucking so on, and then turned into a total gushing fanboy when he got told who it was."
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Date: 2015-12-22 10:57 pm (UTC)She sipped at her coffee, now cool enough to drink more easily. It was now no longer scalding, caffeinated lava.