After dealing with the annoying sandman and having broken into Las Noches they found themselves at a five-way fork...
Ichigo: "So how will we go from this way forward??"
Sora: "Well there are 5 paths and 5 of us along with them that have been following us..."
Sora: "Out of curiosity, are you guys stronger than those three we dealt??"
Pesche: "Only when we protect Nelliel from harm!!!"
Dondochakka: "It depends on who we will meet and what kind of abilities he or she will have..."
Sora: "Then you three will go with Tatsuki, Ichigo, Me, Ishida and Sado will take a different path..."
Tatsuki: "Hey why should they go with me??"
Sora: "No offence... But have you adapted yet to this density of reishi??"
Sora: "If not these guys will help you avoid necessary fights as they know the place upside down..."
Tatsuki: "Che... Fine..."
After they talked a few more things each one took a different direction and travelled down different paths.
Meanwhile, Ulquiorra had brought Orihime in the throne room to swear her loyalty to Aizen while Kaname and Gin were watching her...
Aizen: "It's a pleasure to see you so soon..."
Inoue: "I've been here for a few days and you call that soon..."
Aizen: "Quite a tongue i see..."
Inoue: "What have you planned for him since you stripped me of everything i had?? More like you threatened to strip down everything i had..."
Aizen: "This here in my chest as you may have heard is the Hogyoku..."
Aizen: "Since the two i had gathered fused together into a dark blue piece of jade crystal, it had been weakened slightly from the use..."
Aizen: "Showing you the Hogyoku, is an act of trust, i want you to use your powers to help me restore the Hogyoku..."
Inoue: "My powers can only severe or reject things i don't want them in existence..."
Aizen: "Oh?? It doesn't regress time or speeds up healing??"
Inoue: "If i try to use my powers to the Hogyoku it will severe it and reject it from my sight possible making it lose the fusion you talked about..."
Aizen sat there in thought in his room, pondering over her words... If he were to wait naturally the Supreme Hogyoku as he calls it now will take almost a week...
But with the intruders in place and that guy had come here he doesn't have that much time...
The other thing he could do was reverse the usage of powering up others and let it feed on his reiatsu and hopefully that will speed up the process...
But in order to do that, he would have to revert back to his old appearance and many will think he has gotten weakened instead of getting stronger...
Aizen: "I see, i can definitely use your powers in the right way... But i don't want to risk it on the Supreme Hogyoku..."
Aizen: "For now you can go back... I've learned something important today..."
Inoue turned around and started walking with a grim expression on her face while Ulquiorra was walking behind her with no expression on his face...
Aizen: "Kaname... Find me 20 Arrancars, kill them and gather their Reishi before it becomes one with this realm..."
Kaname: "Yes!!!"
Gin: "Captain Aizen... Do you have any orders for me??"
Aizen: "If you fought with him, how long could you delay him??"
Gin: "If i were to use my Bankai i can blow him out of the Las Noches and keep his occupied there..."
Gin: "As for the timeframe i think for a day..."
Aizen: "Take with you, Harribel and her goons if they try anything funny kill them..."
Gin: "Interesting... Now things have become somewhat good enough to be sliced in pieces..."
As Gin was walking away, he suddenly stopped and looked at Aizen briefly before he asked...
Gin: "Is she allow to use that??"
Aizen: "Would you have a problem dealing her even with that??"
Gin: "Nope!!!"