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(Szayel x Nanao) Chapter 5: A Trip to the Fourth He was still in bed.  Not surprising considering the poor thing had his first encounter with alcohol as a beverage the night before.  Still, there was a schedule to be adhered to.  She opened the curtains to let the morning light in, yanked his covers off (breathing a mental sigh of relief that he had apparently figured out how to use the sleeping yukata), and proceeded to try and rouse him. “RISE AND SHINE, GRANZ-SAN!  We have an appointment for you at the Fourth in one hour and we mustn’t be late!”  She may feel a bit sorry for him, but that didn’t mean she wasn&rsq

(Szayel x Nanao) Chapter 4: A Novel Experience He hated feeling powerless.  Hated it.  Here he was, surrounded by beings who could easily do him harm, and he could do next to nothing about it.   Yes, his test-subject had protected him as it was supposed to, and for that he was almost grateful, but this feeling of helplessness set his nerves jangling as he became hyper-aware of every possible threat in his vicinity.  And that almost-encounter back in the dining hall had ensured that he would be unable to fully relax for at least the next nine hours.   He had hoped to be less on-edge for his meeting with the captain, but clearly that hope h

(Szayel x Nanao) Ch. 3: First Impressions And there he was, the pink-haired, probably-mad espada scientist – Aizen’s erstwhile one-man R&D department.   He was clad in a spotless black-trimmed white uniform which, with the addition of gloves and boots, completely covered him from the neck down.  He also wore a decidedly decorative set of spectacles.  Really, this man was worse than Ayasegawa-san, and he projected a similar air of vain fastidiousness.   She dismissed the Kido Corps guards with a “Thank you. You may go now”  then cleared her throat briskly in an attempt to bring Granz-san’s attention from their

(Szayel x Nanao) Chapter 2: En Route Musings In later years, he would receive no small amount of grief from his friends and associates over the fact that he couldn’t really remember the first time he ever laid eyes on Ise Nanao.  But really, could you blame him?   At the time she was just one more short, dark-haired Soul Reaper girl bustling about on some (seemingly) important errand.  Honestly, he had much more important things to be worrying about at that point than remembering the face of every new person he happened to see!  He supposed he might have glimpsed her when they first arrived in Seretai, since all the available captain

(Szayel x Nanao) Chapter 1: The Impending Arrival         It was a seemingly ordinary day when she first met the man with the candy-floss hair.   Granz was his name, Szayelaporro Granz.  From her research she knew he was some sort of scientist, as well as being the former octava Espada under Aizen.   This information should have been of no particular relevance to her (goodness knows she already had enough to keep track of, what with having a lazy fool of a man for a captain and all…), but it just so happened that this particular arrancar was to be temporarily under the supervision of the eighth squad while the leaders of Soul Soc