Chapter 7

The Plan & The Feast

Evening was just starting to roll around when Urahara had finally managed to work out the last of his plan, on how to show the Arrancar with them the truth behind the monster they served. He knew the most important part of this whole plan was to for this god to be of the same moral standing as Aizen was, and for all of the Arrancar to see him once his plan's had finally come to fruition. This way the arrancar could get a feel for Aizen's true character.

However, this meant Urahara would need to have some help, whether knowingly or not, to make sure that his plan succeeded. For the most part this would not be difficult as he could manipulate several of those in the crew into helping him. The hard part would be getting the help of those who were more suspicious of his motives. This being Rukia, who had not trusted him since the whole hogyoku incident, and Uryu who as a Quincy hated hollows, and anything to do with them. "Geez, some people and their animosity and trust issues!" Urahara muttered to himself as he walked to the galley for this feast that the captain had ordered.

As he stepped up onto the deck though he was surprised when he saw one of the two people he would need to convince just staring up at the stars. Walking over to her Urahara asked "What a lovely view, wouldn't you agree Ms. Kuchiki?" he added on the last par as an afterthought to help remind her of her status as a noble. This would help him when talking to her since she was much more polite when she remembered her status.

Turning to him with a more calm expression than he had originally expected though, Urahara was caught off guard when she replied "Urahara dono to what do I owe the pleasure of your company this evening? I hope nothing has gone wrong for you to be here." As she said all of this a small smile had come to her face, which gave her a very deceiving appearance as a dark aura started to grow around her.

Smiling Urahara simply replied as he eyed the darkness around her while sweat dropping "I see that you have been spending some time with Captain Unohana. That can be a very dangerous thing Ms. Kuchiki, and you are right something may not be ok right now." While he was speaking Urahara went from his usual goofy exterior to his calm and serious appearance showing that his next topic would be one of importance to Rukia.

She immediately responded by dropping her dark aura, and asking "What's the matter Urahara?"

"I'm sure you were listening earlier when Conis said that this man destroyed his own island, and anyone who got in his way, or who became useless correct?" Urahara asked while staring hard at Rukia.

"Yes I remember her saying something along those lines." Rukia replied as she started to get a feeling of confusion from the direction that the conversation was taking.

"Well," Urahara continued "we may be able to use this to our advantage if we can get the arrancar to see that Aizen has the same personality as this man."

"And how pray tell do we do that?" asked Rukia now with clear annoyance at the thought of dealing directly with the arrancar.

"That is simple, we only need to get the arrancar to here this man say two things. One, we need him to say that he is a god. It will create a sense of déjà vu in the arrancar who have probably heard Aizen rant dozens of times about how he deserves the soul kings position because he is the true god. This man too probably says things along those lines to his own subordinates all the time." Urahara replied as he smiled at his own thoughts on the matter.

"Ok that part makes sense, but what was part two?" Rukia asked with confusion still evident in her eyes.

The second thing they need to hear this man say is that his subordinates are expendable, and that he only wants the strong to stand by him. I believe that he will view what is about to happen as a game, the same way that Aizen does." Urahara was about to continue when Rukia cut him off as understanding dawned in her eyes finally.

"This will make it seem as though they are getting insight into what Aizen has planned for them in the near future!" Rukia exclaimed, "Then they won't want to serve him anymore."

As she finished Rukia ended her thought with a smirk, while looking over at Urahara who still looked serious as he continued "You are correct, for the most part except it won't be them thinking it will be an insight into Aizen's plans. No, instead it will be a literal insight into Aizen's plans. I believe that Aizen has only been using his arrancar as a chance to not only prepare the final battle for the soul society, and Karakura town, but also to make it into a game of sorts."

Rukia looked at Urahara in shock as she thought over all that he had said. Little did she know that not one but two people had been listening in on their conversation the entire time. Urahara on the other hand had felt both presences since the beginning, and after he sent Rukia into the galley ahead of him saying he needed some more time to think; he turned towards the shadows, and said "You can come out now, you two."

Out of the shadows stepped Starrk, and Ulquiorra. Starrk was the first to speak as said "So you knew we were listening in the whole time huh? Why didn't you stop talking then, would it not have been better if we did not know what your plans were?"

Ulquiorra simply stood there with his usual blank face as he said "Or perhaps it is because you know something that you were not telling to the girl."

Urahara's brow rose as he stared at Ulquiorra "You are quite perceptive my emotionless friend. You are correct in your assumption. I already know that you will hear both of those statements when we go to this God's Island. What I did not tell her was that I wanted her to act as a guard of sorts when you get to this island. You see my plan is give you time to see how Aizen truly is through this man. I also plan on giving you time to see that not only will he dispose of all of you, but that no man, shinigami, or hollow, is a god, and that given enough time they all eventually fall off of their thrones."

Ulquiorra looked over to Starrk, and said "If he is right then perhaps it will be better for us if we see this through to the end."

Starrk simply nodded his head as he walked over to Urahara, and said "I believe it is time that we all adjourned to the galley, I really want to eat this feast tonight if I have to fight tomorrow."

With that said all three men went into the galley.

In the galley Ichigo p o v

Ichigo was the last one to arrive in the galley. The first thing that he noticed though was the incredibly tense atmosphere. It was like there were four different factions sitting down to eat dinner at the same time. The first group was obviously the strawhats who were for the most part all eyeing Bellamy who sat at the opposite end of the table from all of them. He was obviously the second group all by himself. The third group appeared to be his friends who were all sitting on the opposite side of the table from the fourth and a final group. The arrancar sat for the most part just ignoring everyone at the table and waiting patiently for the feast to start.

The only people who didn't seem to belong to a group or care about the atmosphere were Pagaya, his daughter Conis, and the captain Luffy.

The only place left was a spot next to Halibel's tight, and to the green haired swordsmen's left. As he sat down though he noticed that there was no food on the table yet, and that the captain was starting to get angry from the looks of it. He wasn't too worried about it.

No what he was worried about was the busty blonde sitting next to him. He could still remember the compromising situation that he had woken up in earlier with her. Just thinking about it was actually causing him to blush quite profusely. Though, he didn't realize this until Rukia started laughing at him from the other side of the table and saying "What's wrong Ichigo? You get any redder, and you might get mistaken for your namesake Strawberry."

At this several people from the table all busted out laughing as several started to point at him. Renji even went so far as to fall over as he laughed, while Grimmjow was holding his side to keep himself upright. The only people who didn't laugh were Luffy, Orihime, Ulquiorra, and Halibel. Luffy and Orihime didn't laugh, because they didn't understand what the joke meant, Ulquiorra didn't laugh because he didn't see a reason for the emotion, and Halibel didn't laugh because she thought she might have known why he was blushing. This in turn caused her to blush too. Thankfully everyone was too busy laughing at Ichigo, who was at this point practically blowing his top as he yelled at the entire group about how his name meant protector rather than strawberry. Everyone that is except for Ulquiorra who was sitting next to her, and saw her blush over the top of her collar.

Leaning over subtly Ulquiorra asked "Why are you blushing Halibel?" The whole time he was thinking to himself "Why do I care if she is blushing it is none of my business, and I really don't care. So why did I even ask? Damn, this infernal curiosity!" As the thought crossed his mind Ulquiorra got a slightly annoyed look to his face.

The look on his face however, caught Halibel by surprise and caused her to stare and point at Ulquiorra as they sat there. By now her blush was gone replaced by a curiosity over Ulquiorra's growing emotion's as of late. Her stare caught Starrk's attention as he too noticed the look on Ulquiorra's face which caused him to drop his jaw to his chest. Grimmjow seeing this looked over at what Starrk was staring at and he also, caused his jaw to drop as he saw Ulquiorra.

Finally it seemed that the whole table was staring at Ulquiorra and the arrancars reactions to his emotion, rather than Ichigo. Having enough of the staring Ulquiorra turned to the kitchen, and said in an emotionless tone "Cook you need to hurry with the dinner, things are starting to get weird out here, even by my standards."

At this Sanji simply walked out the door with a large bowl in his hands as he said "Just give me a second, I need to finish this salad real quick, and then I will bring everything out for you all." With his piece said Sanji turned around and walked back into the kitchen.

Ulquiorra then looked back at the table to see that everyone seemed to have finally calmed down enough to enjoy whatever meal the chef had prepared for them. This calm of course didn't last long as the chef walked out a few moments later with four different trays on different parts of his body. He had one tray in each hand, and other on his head, and the last one trapped between his right shoulder, and the accompanying wrist. He then set them all down to show them all having been piled high with food. Sanji then turned around and walked into the kitchen again and came out with another four trays in the same way. He continued his trips to the kitchen another four times after the first two, and with each time everyone who was not from the strawhats crew originally found that astonishment growing. After Sanji had finished bringing in trays of food, and salad he then started rolling in barrels of liquid, and putting one next to everyone at the table until he was the only one left. At which point he pulled a seat up right in-between Robin and Nami.

Grimmjow thought his eyes would fall out of his head when he noticed all of the food in front of him. He had never seen so much food in his entire life, or afterlife actually. All the same as he looked over the table he could see incredibly rare dishes, such as roasted turkey, Grilled steak, and shrimp, chicken Caesar salad, dozens of freshly baked bread, fruit designed in artful ways to impress, Honey glazed pheasant, pies of several different kinds, cakes with so many layers he had no idea how they managed to stay up, Takoyaki by the bakers dozens, dipping sauces of all kinds that he had never even heard of, and to finish it off spread at random throughout the table was dozens of random meats that looked as though they were so juicy it wouldn't even take a knife to pull them off of the bones. He could literally feel the drool pouring down his chin as he looked for a dish to try first.

Rukia was awestruck she had never smelled so many delightful foods, and she was a noble who had seen only the best of foods since her adoption into the Kuchiki estate. She was almost shell shocked, and anywhere she looked along the table people were staring at the food, like the moment dinner started they were going to make a mad dash for anything they could get their hands on. Looking over to the chef she asked "There are two things I need to ask you Sanji san. One will you come back to our home world with us, and be my family's personal chef? And two why did you make so much?"

Sanji simply chuckled as he replied "One I have to complete my dream first Rukia chan, before I even consider your offer, and two there are many new mouths to feed tonight, and I have to make sure that my idiot captain doesn't eat all the food before you all get a chance to eat some as well. Oh and on that note watch your plates everyone Luffy has a bad habit of stealing all the food he can get his hands on, and thanks to his devil fruit it doesn't matter where you sit at the table, your food is still not safe." He finished this statement off with a serious look as he eyed all of the newcomers to the table.

"Ok so what are we waiting for?" Renji asked as he looked over at the cook.

"We are waiting for the captain to make his move. It is customary on a ship for the captain to take the first bite. Well at least on this ship it is, but you raise a valid point. Normally by the time I…" As he was talking everyone looked over to Luffy to see why he hadn't eaten anything yet, only for everyone to notice the snot bubble coming out of his nose as he slept. "That explains it." Sanji finished.

Looking over at Zoro Sanji said "Hey shitty marimo wake up the captain before the food gets cold."

"Do I look stupid to you? I want to eat too ya know." Zoro replied as he just looked at Sanji before Starrk asked "Why is it that if you get up to wake up the captain you won't be able to get any food?

"Simple I'm not fast enough to get back to my seat before Luffy takes all the food within my reaching distance if I'm not there to guard it from him." Zoro said.

"Oh is that all." Starrk said as he looked over at the captain he stood up and said "Allow me to wake up the captain, I know for a fact I can get back into my seat before he gets a chance to do anything to my food." With that Starrk calmly walked up to the captain looked over to Zoro and asked "So, how is the best way to wake him up?"

"See that rack of ribs in front of him put it under his nose, and then get back to your seat as fast as you can." Zoro said as he warily prepared himself for what was about to happen.

Seeing the first mate prepare himself everyone else started to get ready as well though, most were unprepared for what was about to happen as Starrk put the rib under Luffy's nose.

As Luffy's eyes shot open, Starrk realized his mistake as he didn't even bother to put the plate down. He simply sonidoed back to his seat, and still found he was almost beat there by the hand of the captain which was reaching for the barbequed chicken in front of Starrk while his other hand caught the rib plate as it fell towards the table.

After that it was like a mad house as everyone fought to eat their food, and drink their drinks before Luffy got his hands on it. There wasn't even a semblance of class or sophistication from anyone at the table. Even Ulquiorra was doing his best just to grab food to eat. Urahara was shocked beyond comprehension for a second as Luffy seemed to be going even faster now than he was earlier during the attack on the beach. Unfortunately his pause cost him as he lost two steaks that had been near him. Urahara decided later to write down in pen exactly what happened that night so that if he ever got back home he would be able to explain to his friends exactly what happened.

Urahara's journal: day two of the adventure in this new and mysterious world.

It was chaos, pure and unadulterated chaos, to most in the galley that night for the first time. It didn't matter who you were whether you were noble or civilian, pirate or soldier. Everyone was in for what seemed like a battle. I will now attempt to put into word's exactly what happened this night before it becomes a nightmare for everyone who was involved myself included.

Bellamy was using his spring spring fruit much like Luffy was using his gum gum fruit both grabbing anything they could just to get it into their mouths.

Zoro was fighting with Sanji over a piece of rabbit in the middle of the table, both ended the night badly over that piece of meat.

Renji and Ichigo were using their swords to make the other back off of a stew that each wanted to have. Renji was nearly put into a coma over that when he almost knocked the bowl over.

Ulquiorra and Uryu were off to the side exchanging blows over a champagne drink that neither wanted to let go of though, Ulquiorra did eventually win it still cost him and arm when the Quincy got a little too zealous over a taste he managed to get.

Rukia had already knocked Orihime into a stupor over putting bean paste on something Sanji had made, and was fighting violently with Chad over chicken leg, a chicken leg for heaven's sake.

Conis was standing triumphantly over her father as he groveled at her feet as she held aloft a bottle of brandy that he had tried to drink while beating him with a stool that had been nearby.

Usopp was practically ripping chopper's face off as he tried to get the reindeer to stop eating a rather tasty looking cherry pie that Usopp had swiped from the captain a few moments earlier. The reindeer eventually put the sniper into an induced sleep after he stabbed him with a needle.

The weirdest fight though came from the last three females of the crew. Robin, Halibel, and Nami, all fought for the fish salad that Sanji had mistakenly left right in between the three. At some point all three of them had ended up drenched in some very delicious smelling Takoyaki sauce's and chip dips, while the salad was thrown all over them only to make all three fall to the floor writhing in each other's grip as they all tried to get revenge by murder over the loss of the salad.

Now where was I during all of this you might ask? Well that answer is simple I was having a battle of speed with the Primera espada Coyote Starrk over the most delicious looking lamb chop I have ever had the pleasure of seeing. We both ended up in the doctor's room for the night after I tried to bind him with a bakudo kido. He had then dodged the kido which had hit the sexta espada on his other side, as Starrk brought his fist around and into my face. After I got over my dizzy spell I then launched a series of hado spells at him which unfortunately destroyed the lamb chop, but still managed to put Starrk into the bed next to mine that night in the doctor's office.

Of course that still leaves as to how I ended up in the doctor's room for the night though doesn't it. One might recall the sexta who had been put into an unintentional bakudo spell I launched. Well I'm still a little fuzzy on the details, but it seems as though after a few more drinks of whatever Zoro had in his barrel, I had then forgotten to keep my spell up. At that point while unable to defend myself the sexta then beat the living crap out of me.

The night finally ended with the captain being the only man left standing after a few quick blows to his new rival Bellamy. Or at least this is what I'm told.

Sincerely K. Urahara

P.S. I must try this as a way to relax. It really seems as though, I am prepared for war right now.

A/N

Well there you have it people. I really hope you enjoy it, and tell me if you all see something that could be fixed.

I won't lie this was probably one of my favorite chapters, and I found that the last part even made me crack up. I really wish you all could see how I imagined the feast seen going. It was hilarious. I don't think anyone could look at it knowing who was in it, and not laugh.

R and R people