Ulquiorra Schiffer:
I had never asked for anything. Nothing, I'm serious. I never asked permission to skip the Espada meetings, nor permission to rest when I felt weak. I always did as I was told, and nothing else.
But now that Kurosaki Ichigo had killed me, and the pieces of my soul wandered in the sandy emptiness of Hueco Mundo, I began to yearn for a life.
Yes, a life.
A real life, breathing, running, fighting, eating, serving. All of it.
But how could I get a life, when I had died already twice?
So I kept wandering… Until that day came.
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I sensed the woman before I saw her shiny orange hair and deep gray eyes. She was whispering my name ''Ulquiorra-san!'' ''Ulquiorra-san, where on Earth are you? I need to talk to you!''
So I moved to face her. I don't know if she saw me or just sensed me, but she looked straight at me smiling now brightly. '' Oh, there you are, Ulquiorra-san! I finally found you.''
I couldn't answer her, but if I could have said something, I think I would have greeted her with my normal tone of speaking and said :''I see, woman. I do not understand why it makes you so happy.''
The woman looked at the sandy ground, mumbling something. I just caught the end of her sentence, so quietly she spoke. ''…so I wondered, if you still wanted to do something.''
Something I wanted to do? I didn't understand what she meant. She sensed my confusion, and to my surprise she started to smile even wider. '' I knew it'', she said.
''Shouten Kisshun, I reject'' she then said and the orange glow surrounded the parts of the soul that carried the name of Ulquiorra Schiffer.
I knew that the woman possessed the power to return things as they used to be, I had seen how she gave Grimmjow his arm back. But I think she did now something wrong. I didn't open my eyes as the fourth Espada Ulquiorra Schiffer, I was something else.
I looked at myself. My skin was still pale and my nails were still black. My hair was still the length it used to be , and it was black too. I searched for my mask, but I didn't find it.
''Woman…What did you do?'' My voice was the same as always.
The woman, Inoue Orihime was her name, gasped at the sight she saw right in front of her. Me. As a human. I could see my emerald-green eyes from her eyes.
''…Ul…Ulquiorra-san…?''
'' What, woman?''
'' You're…human?''
'' So it seems.'' I replied, as I eyed the clothes I was wearing. A black t-shirt, and a pair of faded blue jeans. I didn't have shoes, so I could see my pale toes, which also had black nails, when I looked down at them.
''Um…I'm sorry…um…Would you like to…um… come to live to the human world?''
'' Why would I, woman?''
The woman looked around, like she was searching for something.
'' Well…You can't live here as a human, I think.''
I put my hands to my pockets, an old habit from my arrancar days or maybe even from before that. I didn't know what to say, because the woman was right. Now that she had returned me to my human form, I couldn't eat hollows and other things that I had used to eat in Hueco Mundo.
The woman was still smiling, but the smile was very small. '' I sensed some other souls here too while I was searching for you. I think they were Grimmjow-san and someone else, whose name I don't know.''
Grimmjow? Why would he still be wandering the ground of Hueco Mundo, when he had died just like he had wanted to, in a fight against an amazingly strong opponent. Who was, of course, Kurosaki Ichigo.
I didn't know.
The woman slipped her hand trough her hair, looking like she was wondering something.
