The Vampire Bride chp 2

"Right men," said Gin, marching in front of a group of three vampires. "We have a mission ahead of us, to find Lord Aizen the most beautiful girl in the world by Halloween!"
"This is stupid," grumbled the tallest.
"Watch it or I'll burn all your porn, Nnoitra," he replied, raising his hand at him threateningly.
Nnoitra whimpered.
"Now, Aizen has given us a list of qualities he would like her to have," he continued. "Kaname, if you please."
Tosen took out a long list with all of Aizen's commands on it, shaking it with a flourish. The three men's mouths fell open.
"That's crazy! There is no girl like that in this world!" cried the one with blue hair.
"I may be all for giving whatever Lord Aizen wants, but there's a point where it gets ridiculous," said the shortest with a blank face.
"Grimmjow, Ulquiorra, Lord Aizen has ordered this, and so we will deliver," said Tosen sternly.
"Right!" exclaimed Gin. "Where do you think we should start? The world's a big place and we need to scour it by Halloween which is in a week."
No one said anything.
"Oh come on," he encouraged. "Anyone got some magazines we can look at?"
"I might actually," said Nnoitra.
Gin clapped his hands together excitedly as Nnoitra began pulling magazines out from you-don't-want-to-know-where.
"OK Vogue, no, Catwalk, no, Mean Girls, that's a movie ignore that, ah here we go!" he cried, finally pulling out what he was looking for, "My porn magazine, Autumn Limited Edition!"
"Oh wow! I can't believe you got that!" exclaimed Gin, skipping forward to look at it. "I didn't even know it was out yet!"
"It's not," Nnoitra replied with a wink. "I know a girl who knows a guy whose sister's boyfriend's cousin's second aunt's uncle's daughter's boyfriend is the Janitor."
"Not gonna ask," muttered Grimmjow. "Are you sure we're gonna find the right girl here?"
Nnoitra flipped the magazine open and presented it to him with a self-satisfied smirk.
He took one look and straightened up, "Right, where is this place?"


Less than an hour later the five Vampires found themselves in the middle of Antarctica, surrounded by miles and miles of icy ground and nothing else. Ulquiorra glared at Nnoitra.
"I thought you said there was a thriving metropolis here," he said coolly.
Nnoitra looked at the map on the back of the magazine with a frown.
"This is clearly labelled Antarctica," he said.
Grimmjow snatched it off him and looked at the map.
"You dumbass! This says the Arctic, not the Antarctic!" he snarled, throwing it at Nnoitra's head.
Gin caught it and looked at it also. He grinned.
"I know you two aren't the sharpest biting teeth in the mouth, but you do realise this is a tattoo on someone's back?
"WHAT?!" they cried, grabbing it back off Gin and studying it carefully.
"That could be why it says "I heart the Arctic"," commented Tosen dryly.
"Right, so after that bit of utter stupidity from lower-class trash, what do we do now?" asked Ulquiorra.
"We could-" began Nnoitra.
"Not from you!" cried everyone.
"The best course of action seems to be to travel the world's great cities and see if we can find anyone suitable there?" suggested Tosen reasonably. "It's a sure way to find someone."
"You would know," sang Gin under his breath, causing Nnoitra and Grimmjow to laugh loudly, and quickly try to cover it when Tosen glared at them which turned it into a noise that sounded like a donkey.
So with that, the five vampires set out on a tour around the world, visiting its greatest cities and most exclusive shopping department stores, like Target, Walmart, and Woolworths, occasionally stopping at the Vampire Market for some fresh plasma juice. But it was all in vain. There was no girl that completely fit the requirements; things could not get any worse. If they did not find her, it would be "Or else".
It was at a café in New York where they received the dreadful news.
Gin opened the letter from the messenger bat (no humans were looking too hard as it was Halloween and nearly everyone had a bat with them) and gave a loud groan.
"What's wrong?" asked Nnoitra, taking a bite of his bloodless blueberry muffin.
"Aizen's decided on another requirement," he told them with a grimace.
"Let's hear it," said Tosen, closing his eyes tightly in an effort to block out whatever the request was.
"Ahem," he cleared his throat. "Dear Gin, while you are in the human world would you mind picking up some Oreos and the new iphone 5- oops wrong letter," he chuckled nervously and picked up the next one. "Dear Vampspada and Gin and Kaname. I hope your search is going well. If you have found a girl you may need to find another as I have recently come across another request. She must have an AB blood type; it's my favourite flavour and gives her that evil undercurrent. Thank you very much and I will see you at my birthday celebration, don't come too late or you will miss out on the O Positive Cookies. Cheerio!"
There was a silence as they all looked in horror at Gin.
"He likes Oreos?" asked Grimmjow.
"Idiot," said Ulquiorra. "That's not the worst of it. Where are we going to find a girl that meets all that?"
Nnoitra sighed and put down his muffin, "Somehow, this isn't filling me up. Let's go."
They all left the shop, without paying naturally, as they were high class Vampires who don't need to pay. They walked out onto 42nd Street with a melancholy air, barely noticing the decorations flying everywhere.
"Hey!" Grimmjow piped up. "What do girls like to do?"
They all stared at him.
"Well instead of going to supermarkets, maybe we should try to get into a place where they frequently converge."
"Like a dance academy?" Ulquiorra inputted.
"Yeah, how did you come up with that?" he asked excitedly.
The emo vampire pointed to a fancy-looking building with a sign over the top saying "New York Ballet for Girls" and a swarm of pretty girls in tights and buns walking in. Every vampire's face lit up (yes even Ulquiorra's, although only slightly).


"What would I be doing at a place like this?" hissed a tall, dark-skinned, big-chested, blonde woman.
"Oh come on Tia," soothed Gin. "This is for Lord Aizen. If we can get into here and find the right girl, we'll give you 5% of the rewards."
"Forget it!" she snapped. "I don't dance, let alone at a flimsy place like this."
"But you'd look great in a leotard," Grimmjow encouraged.
"I don't doubt that. But I'm too tall and I've never danced before, not enough to get into a place like this!"
"But-" began Kaname.
"Go find someone smaller, with a girlier face, and with dancing experience," she ordered before she disappeared in a whirl of flash-running that is common of vampires.
"Well how are we gonna find someone like that?" asked Nnoitra grumpily.
Gin gave a devious grin.


Less than an hour later, the five vampires stood in front of a white leotard- and tight- wearing, black-bunned, violet-eyed, small, girly-looking boy.
"Why do I have to do this again?" he asked, looking at his legs curiously.
"This is all for Lord Aizen, Luppi," explained Gin, wrapping his arm around Luppi's shoulders. "You find him the girl he wants; you get 5% of the profits."
"That's not much for dressing up as a girl," he complained, crossing his arms.
"But you get to dance with hot girls!" exclaimed Nnoitra. "Lucky bastard," he added quietly.
"Yeah but they think I am a girl!"
"How about 10% of the profits?" asked Kaname.
"It really doesn't seem worth it."
"I'll handle this," said Ulquiorra, pushing everyone away and walking up to stand at eye-level with Luppi. "If you don't do this," he hissed in an ominous voice. "I will tell Lord Aizen about your ballet posters."
"You wouldn't?" he gasped, Ulquiorra just looked at him with his piercing green eyes. "Urgh fine! But I'm not guaranteeing I'll be good."
"Just get us in," said Grimmjow.
Luppi sighed and hitched his pink bag on his shoulder and walked forward into the school with a flounce of his hips.
"Is it wrong to think he looks really good in a leotard and tights?" murmured Nnoitra to Grimmjow.
They followed him in and stared around the enormous ballet hall, filled to the brim with gorgeous girls in tight leotards, stretching next to the mirrors.
"Excuse me, do I know you?" asked a dark woman with purple hair, eyeing them critically.
Luppi walked up to her with a smile, "Hi, I'm Luppi Antenor, I'm a new student."
The five vampires' mouths dropped open: his voice had suddenly turned scarily feminine.
"I don't remember a new student," she frowned, leaning around him to glare at the gaping males.
"They're my agents, we come from a professional ballet company in Tokyo," he said calmly, waving his hand for them to come over. He leaned in to talk quietly to her, "To be honest, I'm actually not a new student. We're here to take a look at the girls here and possibly invite them into our company; I'm posing as a new student to study their style."
"Oh I see!" she exclaimed. "Well that's wonderful, nice to meet you," she shook his hand enthusiastically. "I'm Yoruichi Shihoin, head of New York Ballet for Girls."
"The pleasure's all mine," he turned and indicated to the stunned men behind him. "These are my agents who will be doing the inspecting," he glared at them when they didn't move.
"Oh!" started Gin, jumping forward to shake her hand. "My name is Gin Ichimaru; I'm the…head agent, yes, the head agent. We'll just be going around and taking a look, pretend we're not there. By the way," he leaned in. "You smell wonderful, what blood type are you?"
"Aah," she began but was quickly interrupted.
"Miss Yoruichi are we going to get started?" demanded a small girl with black hair in a bun and black eyes.
"Oh yes, of course!" she jerked away from Gin and walked to the front of the room. "Alright girls, I would like you all to meet a new student, Luppi." Luppi waved with a smile. "Please make her feel welcome and help her out if she has a little trouble with the routine. These men here," she waved her hand at the vampires. "Will be watching you for performance purposes, so pretend they're not there. OK, places for the warm-up!" she clapped her hands. "Luppi, go stand next to Nelliel there, she'll help you out."
Luppi went to stand beside a green-haired girl who smiled at him kindly.
"Ready?" asked Yoruichi, putting her finger to the stereo player. "And begin!"