Kadaj nodded, once, and plainly grateful. "Thanks, Gin," he said, quietly.

Tayuya was the one person Kadaj was running away from. He'd face Illua, face Kuja, and if any of the other Sound Five caught up to him, he'd face them too. But he couldn't face Tayuya. It wasn't just the risk he'd put her at, which he knew about, and which was on the agenda for discussing with Illua, it was the betrayal. Tayuya had helped him get his information, had helped him pick his moment against Orochimaru, and she'd had no idea he was going to use it for this.

"Thanks for your help, Nnoitra," he added, the corner of his mouth quirking briefly upwards as he looked at him. "I'll leave you my number, in case you need someone to back you up." Against Aizen, inevitably, but maybe against Grimmjow, or others too, even if Kadaj didn't particularly want to talk to them. It'd be low, after enlisting Nnoitra's help, to leave him to take all the heat in Kadaj's absence.

Tempting as it may be when he thought of all the fall out it would cause.