Title: Deception

Author: Tara Kitaide

genre: romance/angst/tragedy

Pairing: Aizen/Renji

Disclaimer: Wouldn't it be so cool to own bleach? Unfortunately, I don't. If I did, there'd be hot yaoi smut every chapter.

Warning: Yaoi, language, fantasy violence

Rating: M for future yaoi

Dedication: To any and all fans of this pairing. Also to my Aizen/Renji club on Deviant Art.

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"It's time."

"Soi Fon, get away from him!"

The next thing anyone knew, there was an odd flash of light that completely engulfed the traitorous ex-capitan. Yoruichi and Soi Fon, who had barely managed to move in time, looked on with widened eyes as the ground beneath Aizen's feet began to break off from the hill and raise into the air.

The shinigami looked on in complete shock as the sky was ripped open and Ukitake exclaimed. "What the devil?!"

"Menos Grande!"

Just as Soi Fon had said, Menos Grande came out of the giant rip in the sky, one after the other.

"Gillians?! How many are there?"

"No... there's something behind them!"

And as if on some unspoken que, two more beams of light like the one that engulfed Aizen came shooting out of the sky and covered the other two shinigami traitors.

Rangiku looked on at the former capitan, her former friend and her eyes widened.

"It's too bad..." Gin said, his head down and back to Matsumoto. "I wouldn't have minded being your prisoner a while longer."

There was a pause and a sad tone in his voice as he turned. "Good bye, Rangiku." Gin's eyes opened slightly, revealing the small traces of sadness that were barely detectable in his voice. "I'm sorry."

Iba prepared to rush the capitans as they began to raise just as Aizen had. "You can't escape!"

"STOP!!"

Iba's movements stopped and he turned, looking at the sou-taichou with now slightly widened and concealed eyes. "Sir...?"

"That light is called 'negacion'." He explained. "The Menos use it to rescue each other. The moment that light envelops something, it's all over. They're in another world now. There's nothing you can do. Anybody who's fought a Menos knows that the moment that light came down, Aizen was beyond our reach."

There were many growls, groans, and curses that came from the crowd of shinigami but none as loud as Komamura.

"TOUSEN!!!" He roared, pounding his bloody fist into the ground. "Come down, Tousen! Why?! Why did you become a shinigami!? Wasn't it for your dead friend?! Wasn't it to uphold justice?! WHERE HAS YOUR SENSE OF JUSTICE GONE?!"

There was a momentary pause before Tousen glared down at him, a frown on his lips. "I told you Komamura; I follow the path least soak in blood. Justice is always there."

Komamura's eyes widened slightly as his friend departed and continued his short speech.

"The path I walk IS Justice."

Ukitake took a step forward and glared up at the ring leader of the trio, his eyebrows furrowed together. "You joined forces with the Menos." He growled. "Why?"

Aizen took a moment to answer, his face calm and emotion; none. "I wouldn't be worried about me." He said. "Instead I would be wondering where one of your lieutenants has gone."

Ukitake's eyes widened and he stared at the traitor a while more before snapping his head around and looking at the crowd of shinigami behind him. His eyes searched frantically from face to face. Everyone was there! Everyone who had arrived was there! Everyone who had arrived...

Ukitake looked to where Renji had currently been laying unconscious but there was nothing but a large puddle of blood. His head snapped back to Aizen and his eyes widened even more (if possible).

In Aizen's arms, being cradled like a baby, was Renji's battered and bruised body, his arms and legs swaying as the platform rose.

"What are you doing?!" Ukitake demanded. "Why are you taking him?! Bring him back!"

Aizen said nothing and instead smirked down at Ukitake, a smug look on his face.

"HAVE YOU FALLEN TO EARTH, AIZEN?!"

Aizen scoffed and held Renji with one arm as the other was lifted to his head. "Don't kid yourself, Ukitake. No one ever stood atop the heavens before. Not you..." He took off his glasses. "Or I..." He sdmoothed back his hair. "Or the gods. But the unbearable vacancy of heaven's throne ends now. From now on..." The glasses broke in Aizen's hands as he paused and returned to holding Renji with both arms. "I will stand atop the heavens."

He took another momentarily paused and smirked down at the group, his eyes traveling from one face to another. "Good bye Shinigami. Good bye... Ryoka boy. I'll tell my pet you say hello."

And then, he was gone, disappearing into the rip in the sky with Renji in hand, leaving many minds to ponder why.

A/N: Eh, this was rushed and really sucks. I didn't work to hard and really just wanted to get it done. The significance of him taking Renji doesn't seem... significant. And sense this is an Aizen x Renji fic (my first) that is... well, significant! I hope you guys can see past this and stick around for the next chapter because I promise, it'll be really good! Plenty of mind torture and man smex and the like! Mwahaha!

I WILL NOT UPDATE UNITLL I GET AT LEAST TEN REVIEWS SO NO REVIEWS, NO SMUT! MWAHAHAHA!!