1A.N. Just a small drabble. This story has a small spoiler for those who have not read the manga after the SS arch or watched the anime. If you are up to date on the most recent chapters (I just finished reading all the way to 293 which is the newest released volume in Japan), read on. I'd like some reviews for this silly drabble! Thanks a bunch.
Thoughts from a Captive
An endless night is all she could glimpse from the small window in the room she currently occupies. An overwhelming feeling, one of hope and desperation, took her. She could feel him. Kurosaki-kun was here. He came to save her. Her friends, here in this terrible world just for her. How did they know where she had gone? Did they believe that she had been taken against her will or did they think her a traitor?
She shook her head and let it hang as her eyes closed in thought. No, they couldn't think that, could they? A deep breath drawn into her lungs and she felt her body relax.
"Please let them stay safe." She whispered it to herself. There was no one around her who would care how she felt or thought, so she spoke to herself as a comfort for her own mind. It will be alright she thought. Everything will work out. It has to.
Her head lifts at the sound of approaching foot steps and she opens her eyes once more to the bright-white of the room. He was coming again. Why wouldn't they just let her be unless she was needed. All these visits and silences and looks of disgust were starting to wear on her mentally. Another intake of breath and she stood to face the entrance she knew he would be walking through.
"Evening Inoue." He says to her in his usual monotone. His feet continue to carry him closer to her as she responds with a small bow.
"Konichiwa Ulquiorra-san." She straightens and watches him as he walks to the un-touched plate of food sitting on the small table to the right of the room. He turns his head to lock eyes with her, she doesn't look away. She isn't a coward. He doesn't scare her. She doesn't need to feel any nervousness around him.
"You didn't eat again?" She simply shook her head. "This will not due." He took a few steps toward her. "You need to eat to have energy. You need energy to fulfill the tasks that Aizen-sama presents you with." He takes a hand out of his pocket and motions toward the sofa in the middle of her room. "We have discussed this before." She does as he intends her to and sits on the sofa, her hands clasped together in her lap, eyes focused on them.
"I don't have an appetite, Ulquiorra-san." He sits on the other end of the white sofa, facing her.
"Then I shall force it down your throat the next time you do not touch the food I have made for you." He speaks in a monotone, with authority backing it. Her head snaps up to look at him with a trace of fear in her eyes.
"I will eat then." She can sense he enjoys the fear radiating from her, and yet he is always the picture of composure. He nods.
"Is it the food itself that does not appeal?"
She hesitates. "I prefer sweets and rice... The food you bring is..." He waits, so she continues. "Spicy." He nods a single time.
" I will change it then."
There it is again. Kurosaki-kun's rietsu. Even Ulquiorra notices it this time and stands from the couch. "I will return shortly." And with that, he leaves her sitting on the couch in deep thought.
"Kurosaki-kun. Please be safe." She looks up at the window and loses herself in thought.