"It does," he answered. "The arrancar attacked us and took the healer girl, Orihime. Aizen plans to take the spiritual power of Kurakara Town and pull all the spiritual energy out of it, vaporizing the town in the process. We don't entirely know all of his plans, but we knew we had a small period of time before the all-out war."

He smirked slightly at her heavy tone. "That's pretty ominous talk for you, Matsumoto." he teased. "But you're right."

A pause. Time to change the subject. "So what did Ichimaru want?"