Better Summary:

Orihime is a young girl who had to move with her mother to the town of Sousuke, and attend Las Noches Gakuen. The story starts off with her in a very vulnerable state, due to the fact that her mother (portrayed by Unohana in this world. ^^) can't drop her off, and that she always thought she'd be with all of her friends in High School. She meets Ulquiorra while faltering on the path to the school, and Ulquiorra tells her something that makes her able to go to the school. This story is about how their relationship develops. Review, since this is actually a collaboration fic. I'm not working with anyone else online, I'm working with my friends on this, so I'd really like as much input as I can possibly get.

In other words, my friends, review or else. ^^

*eyes glow red*

I'll have to show you just how dark the depths of my inner soul are.

I hate this town. I hate that I had to leave all of my nakama behind to go to some place I hardly know, and even when I'm starting high school here… Mom not being able to drop me off doesn't make this feel much better though...

A young girl with auburn hair walked slowly down an empty street, passing by the alien homes surrounding her. She looked down at her wrist, and saw that she was already late. But in all reality, she didn't really care about that.

It's nothing like Karakura, where all of the houses are far apart… It's almost like there's a house, and three feet next to it, there's another one. I wish I didn't have to move… Why now of all times? I used to dream about how I'd go to high school with Tatsuki, Uryuu, Chad, Rukia… Kurosaki-kun.

The thought that she wouldn't be able to see him anymore caused her to stop. She looked around, seeing that she was at the base of a large hill, with trees standing tall on both sides of the path, right past the sidewalk. The girl stared at the path, and thought about how depressing it was, feeling like she wasn't actually going to a new school.

It's more like entering into a new world. A bleak, lonely, black and white world.

The girl stood, paralyzed. She reached into her schoolbag and pulled out a small photograph.

The picture was of a little girl and a young man, probably in his early twenties. They were both smiling, the little girl sitting on top of the man's shoulder, waving to the camera, the man holding onto her, making sure she didn't fall down.

"Nii-chan?" The girl stood still, clutching the photograph against her chest. "I know that it's been a while since we last talked, but… I need to talk with somebody now. Mom and I had to move, and now… I'm scared… I always used to dream about being surrounded by the friends who really cared about me when I went to high school, but I'm all alone here, and it's really scary. I thought that I was going to be surrounded by my friends, everyone saying 'do your best!' to me, and cheering me on, but…"

A single tear fell down her face, and she wiped it away, still clutching the photograph against her chest.

As the girl began speaking, she didn't notice a young man walking in the same direction she had been previously, about thirty feet behind her.

"Nothing can stay unchanged… Even so, can I find it in me to love such a place as this? Such a scary, lonely, and foreign place? All of those happy and fun things from before… They can't all possibly stay unchanged..."

"Just find new ones."

The girl turned around, her auburn hair blocking her sight for only a moment, before her grey eyes were greeted by the sight of a boy. He was only a little taller than her, but had skin that almost seemed too pale to be human. His dark hair that fell onto his face, covering a small part of his eyes, and he was facing her, there was no doubt about it in her mind. Her glance fell onto his face, and finally, she saw the boy's eyes. They were a strikingly harsh green color, and seemed to be have no emotion in his eyes, as if he didn't really care that he was actually ten minutes late for school. He wore a white school uniform that had the same symbol that hers did, a reversed black crescent moon. He had one hand in his pocket, the other holding onto his own schoolbag.

A weak wind blew past them, causing her school uniform to flutter in the breeze. Her hair followed in pursuit, almost glistening in the cool morning air.

She stared at the boy for a moment, only a weak look of confusion on her face.

"Just find new fun and happy things." He continued speaking, his voice staying in a monotone that only seemed bored. Or was it agitated? The girl couldn't really tell, and just stood staring at him with an inability to understand him. The boy heaved a sigh.

"C'mon, let's get going." The boy said to her, before starting up the long hill silently, with a tired expression on his face.

Not a sleepy tired, but more like an "Orihime, stop cooking all of that food, it's going to make you sick!" look mom gets. When she's like that, mom's face is so funny when she's trying to yell at me like that. Orihime giggled a little bit at the thought of her mother's "strict face". The boy didn't seem to notice, as he was already ahead of her. Seeing that she was falling behind, she ran for a moment to catch up, walking silently next to the boy, heading up the long, difficult hill.

I never thought that silence could be so comforting.

So, what'd you think? For those of you who couldn't tell, yes, I will be using multiple references from other anime, such as CLANNAD. From what I've written so far, I've used quite a bit of the first episodes of CLANNAD, however, the story eventually changes aspects. And for those of you who say that this person couldn't possibly be Ulquiorra, I have a lot of things I can use to defend my Ulquiorra:

1) Ulquiorra does start feeling emotion after his death, and shows that he does indeed feel it when he fights Ichigo on top of the dome of Las Noches.

2) Ulquiorra was never really evil or violent, he was much more of a person who just stands there. He won't fight or act cruel without external stimuli, such as an order from someone who is capable of killing him, like Aizen.

3) Ulquiorra is only saying this because he's answering her question. He is not really interested in her, he's just answering her question.

Also, as a final note, no, Ulquiorra is not actually be encouraging to Orihime. He is simply stating a way to solve her problem, without actually caring about the outcome itself(my friend who read this earlier told me about how OOC Ulquiorra seemed to be when he spoke to Orihime).

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