A/N: Here is a story I started a long time ago and stopped without it going anywhere! Now I've come back to try and finish it, or at least go as long as I can. My original idea came from an alternate ending to the Ulquiorra fight but now it has grown into a full UlquiHime fanfiction. My writing for this is slow...but I will continue to try writing it! I hope you readers can be patient with me and don't be afraid to bug me now and then to keep going! I hope you enjoy my fanfiction, If I Were The Rain.
The final battle was happening.
There I sat, rooted in place. Not by the sheer force of Kurosaki Ichigo and Ulquiorra Ciffer's monstrous reiatsu, but by shock. Things were not supposed to end up this way.
Ulquiorra was our enemy. I should've expected something like this from the beginning.
I knew Kurosaki-kun was coming to save me, but I never thought he would fight Ulquiorra. Maybe I just didn't want to think of the possibility…
Since I'd met him, Ulquiorra had changed in my eyes. At first he'd scared me, and then later he'd interested me. He'd asked me about the heart and I'd wanted to help him somehow. During my imprisonment on Hueco Mundo I'd felt myself draw closer and closer to him.
I did not want to see him die, of that I was sure.
For Kurosaki-kun it was…different. I thought I loved him but now….I was so confused.
I didn't want either of them to die.
Their blades clashed together, their reiatsu creating a thunderous roar. Kurosaki-kun in his strange new form that resembled a hollow, and Ulquiorra in his Resurrección form. Ishida-kun was also nearby, hurt from his previous encounter with Ulquiorra. Both Ulquiorra and Kurosaki-kun seemed to be on the same level, until something changed...
I watched with a scream stuck in my throat as Kurosaki-kun suddenly got the upper hand. He grabbed Ulquiorra's arm, ripping it free, and smashed his face into the ground. Ulquiorra came back in full force with his cero, but Kurosaki-kun just blocked the blast with his hand. Ulquiorra' eyes grew wide.
"This is bad! At this rate Ulquiorra could –"
Who did I want to win? Both of them?
I stood up quickly, my legs stiff.
Kurosaki-kun slashed Ulquiorra across the chest, and then pinned him to the wall with his reiatsu alone. It rolled off of him in waves, like darkness that poisoned the air.
"No." Inoue whispered in her mind. "At this rate Kurosaki-kun will win. Ulquiorra will-"
His sword stabbed through Ulquiorra's chest, and rooted him to the wall, making it impossible for the hollow to move.
"No."
Kurosaki-kun drew his head back, and red light beginning to form at the tips of his horns.
Ulquiorra's green, cat-like eyes widened for a moment in fear, and then slowly grew sad.
A growl slid out of the Hollow form's teeth as the red light grew larger by the second.
"No.
I watched as Ulquiorra slowly slid his eyes over to me. They looked weary, but also deep and unending. They reminded me of our first meeting, and of every time he'd looked at me, watching me in a similar way.
The idea that those eyes would never fill with the emotions I knew Ulquorra was looking for…that he would never find his heart again…it was too much for me.
Anguish overwhelmed me.
The red cero's energy was so large, it was about to explode. Ulquiorra eyes slipped close as he resigned himself to his fate.
Everything became clear to me. The world around me slowed down to a crawl. Ulquiorra could not die. A world without him seemed so lost, for some reason.
I would not let him die.
My feet started to move before I realized what was happening. I wasn't sure if I would make it to Ulquiorra in time. I heard a scream and knew it was my own voice, shouting his name.
I never asked myself what I was doing, or why I was doing it.
My mind was too busy processing two more important details.
The first one was that Ulquiorra would die if I didn't make it there.
The second was powerful and unprecedented and it didn't make any sense.
I loved Ulquiorra.
When I saw his body relax in defeat, I prepared for the end and pushed my feet faster.
The Hollow form did not react – he was so caught up in his victory that he didn't notice me sprinting towards him. I didn't say the words that would activate my shun shun rikka since my shield wouldn't be powerful enough to save us and the blast would surely incinerate my fairy spirits.
Far away in Karuakura town, rain fell outside Tatsuki's window.
"The rain which binds together heaven and earth..."
As I ran I raised my arms up to shield him from the cero. The Hollow released the blast in a giant swell of reiatsu that seemed to swallow the world whole.
In that second, with a final feeling of relief, I reached Ulquiorra.
