Bright emerald orbs snapped open at the sound of the alarm and a skinny pale hand reached out to turn it off. Ulquiorra stood up from his bed and walked to the bathroom without any of the sluggishness in his step which mornings brought to the rest of the world. For many years he had trained himself to stay alert and watchful at all times, even at dawn when the rest of the world lied vulnerable. He stopped in front of the mirror, almost by habit, and gazed at his reflection for a moment, not at all surprised when the same blank eyes stared back at him. He ran a hand through his hair and undressed without any more pauses to look at himself. Soon his figure disappeared behind frosted glass walls and he let the cold water wash over him to relieve the tiredness in his limbs.

Ulquiorra was skinny and pale and he's huge green eyes stood out in his doll-like face. The man was tall and slim, lithe at the waist and at the wrists almost like a child, but there was a certain definition to the muscles in his body that assured any onlooker he was not to be confused for weak. His legs were long and slender and seemed to stretch miles below his waist. His raven hair stretched down to his shoulders and there were no piercings decorating his ears, as he deemed those things petty and unnecessary, just an aesthetic. He was beautiful in ways others could not hope to be or often did not understand. His eyes were too expressive at times to make up for his face not being, and it frightened some. Ulquiorra had eyes so deep and chilling that seemed to pierce right through you but not without methodically studying your insides. Most subconsciously believed they could hide nothing from those merciless eyes, and they would have been right if Ulquiorra had not cared so little for what mysteries their bodies housed.

Ulquiorra was cunning and clever but he rarely used those skills to exploit others. He was simply too apathetic.

The dark-haired boy stepped out of the shower and grabbed a towel, placing it around his waist and walking out of the bathroom back into his room. He changed into a dress shirt and wore the school's jacket, buttoned all the way up to under his chin, just like he liked it. He looked over himself in the mirror one last time to make sure he looked as clean-cut and orderly as he felt before he turned away. Ulquiorra grabbed the messenger bag on his bed and hung it off his shoulder, making his way out the door. Truly Ulquiorra only spent time in these little details of his appearance because he knew how people would react to it.

Ulquiorra knew the way human minds worked and when someone dressed this way it was more likely that they would be left alone by most. That was exactly what he wanted.

A small kitten purred against his leg and he looked down. "Attempt to make little trouble, I will be back soon enough."

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Ulquiorra walked down empty halls, his hands deep in his pockets, looking for the office. He had missed the morning train and had to walk for two hours until he got to this new school. He wanted to let out an annoyed sigh, but he was Ulquiorra Cifer and Ulquiorra Cifer does not sigh, in fact he doesn't show any emotion at all. He opened a door that read 'Office' and walked up to the old lady that was sitting behind the front desk.

"I am Ulquiorra Cifer and I am new here, would you mind to give me my schedule?" he said his tone flat and cool.

The lady looked up from her desk and gave him a big smile then looked to one of the doors at her back.

"Oi brat, bring me Ulquiorra Cifer's schedule!" the lady said to the door.

"WHAT?" came a deep voice from within the closed room.

"BRING ME CIFER'S SCHEDULE!" she yelled making Ulquiorra lightly wince in the inside. Her voice was too high-pitched for his liking.

A head popped out of the room and frowned. "Jeez, no need to scream, Unohana." he said in a mocking tone walking towards Ulquiorra and the lady, who's name apparently was Unohana."

"Keep being such a charming young boy and I will nail your toes to the door and let you sway" she smiled at him with what could only be described as silent loathing.

"Whateve'z" he turned to Ulquiorra and handed him a blue sheet of paper. "This is your schedule, but like you're here late go straight to lunch" he looked at his watch "I'll go with you and show you around" he gave him a big grin and turned to the door followed by Ulquiorra who just grunted as an answer.

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They had picked up their lunch and they were now sitting on a table far away from everyone else who kept giving Ulquiorra and his new acquired partner dark glares. Ulquiorra noticed the guy staring at him and frowned. "What?" he asked and the guy blinked like he had just said something idiotic.

"Oh, my bad. You're Ulquiorra right? The name is Akira Ryuugiro*" he smiled.

"Hn" was all he got for answer as Ulquiorra dove back into his food.

"You're not a man of many words are ya'?"

"Not really" Ulquiorra said not interested in the other guy's talking.

He looked at the 'Akira' guy up and down. He was a tall and has a mop of red hair spiked to the side with blue highlights here and there, his eyes were cat-like pupils in a sea of violet and his mouth was adorned by snake bites. It was obvious he was the type of guy to wear his heart on his sleeve, Ulquiorra hated those types of people; they were annoying. His thoughts were interrupted when Akira grabbed his hand and pushed him against a dark corner, when he was about to protest his mouth was covered by a tan hand. He almost reacted the way he usually would and defend himself with everything he had but the boy whispered calming 'shhs' into his ear.

"Shh, we're gonna get caught" Akira his tone was one of warning. Ulquiorra looked around; he was against Akira's chest whom was against the wall on a corner not visible to anyone else. What did this utter fool think he was doing to him? He noticed Akira pointing were they had previously been. He saw three guys sitting on the table talking to one another. One with spiky electric-blue hair, one with long black hair and one with dark brown hair and a lazy look in his eyes.

The blue-haired guy attracted his attention the most, his sapphire eyes matched perfectly with his hair and his tanned skin looked beautiful under the sun. 'What an eyesore' Ulquiorra thought mentally rolling his eyes. After a few more seconds the guys stood up and walked away from the table. Ulquiorra felt Akira relax behind him and he stepped away from his grasp.

"Explain to me in this instant why you would react so violently to their arrival?" he asked the redhead who was looking around making sure the other guys had really left.

"You're new here so you don't know about them." He sat back down and motioned for Ulquiorra to do the same.

"Those three guys are part of one of the 2 gangs that rule the school, Espadas and Escudo**, no one really knows who the leaders are so we all refer to them as Pantera and Leopardo. Usually everything is calm but when something comes in the way to break the perfect balance the gangs don't hesitate to attack each other and everything around them just to pull down the stress. Lately they're at each other's throats more than ever because Leopardo broke the deal of not giving away Pantera's real identity and now there's a small suspicion of who it is and everyone who gets in their way it's doomed. Like you're new you're the perfect target for them, but don't worry I will protect you" he grinned widely.

"I do not need your help, trash" Ulquiorra said standing up and walking away from a shouting Akira.

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Ulquiorra cursed inwardly and stood against the wall, he had a couple more minutes to get to class and hopefully get rid of a certain redhead who kept following him around lunch blabbering about gangs and… kittens, yeah kittens, in his annoying way of talking. He had somehow lost him along the way and was now standing on the school's roof enjoying the fresh air and finally relaxing. He still had one more class left and then he could leave this horrible hell hole that people dared to call school.

He was so lost in thought he didn't even notice there was someone behind him until he was suddenly pounced upon. He looked up, and if Ulquiorra had not been Ulquiorra, almost let out a terrified scream when he noticed a red mop of hair hiding in his chest. It was Akira again; it seems the cheery idiot found his hiding place.

"ULQUI-CHAN" he said happily "I have been looking all over for you, I thought you had been gang raped or something dude!" he stood up giving the disgusted raven his personal space back.

"Do not touch me so openly trash" he spat out and ran a hand through his clothes attempting to get Akira's scent of him, he didn't wanted to catch the retarded virus emanating from said inutile boy.

"Don't be so grumpy Ulqui-chan, come on we gotta get ya' to art class" he started walking towards the stairs and Ulquiorra followed behind a spark of annoyance momentarily filling his green eyes. Wasn't there a limit at how annoying this guy could be?

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They walked into the art class that was empty aside of the teacher who was lazily sitting on her chair reading a book while sucking on a lollipop like a child. Akira greeted her and she gave him a big smile waving her hand towards the seats. Ulquiorra chose to sit the very back and was followed by Akira. Seriously what was with this guy? Did he enjoy following him around practically licking -he was sure if he let him he would- his shoes and worshipping his very breath? 'Trash' Ulquiorra thought.

He was watching disinterestedly people walking into the class until something made him sit up immediately. The guy from before with the electric-blue hair walked through the door followed behind by the two guys he had also seen in lunch, when Akira invaded his personal space for the first time. Ulquiorra narrowed his eyes, this was just perfect, he had class with this kind of trash. He saw them walk towards him and the annoying lap-dog, also known as Akira, was chatting his head off and sat right in front of them completely ignoring their existence.

He lifted his gaze from the spiky blue hair and stared at the teacher who had just stopped reading and was now standing up.

"Alright listen up little brats, I will not be bothered by your little quarrels or misbehaving so cut the crap with each other before I decide to castrate you all, have a nice rest of the class" she sat back down and completely ignored the snickers around the room. Ulquiorra wanted to face palm right there, even the TEACHERS were idiots, what exactly was wrong with this school anyways?

"Oh and Grimmjow Jaegerjaquez." the teacher suddenly pointed to the blue-haired guy "it's nice to have you back another year" she said, sarcasm filling the sentence and also muttered something that sounded like 'dumbass' but was unheard by the rest of the class who was now completely minding their own business and enjoying the given freedom. It seemed now the guy had a name. Grimmjow. He rolled the name in his tongue, it sounded… nice, exotic may he add, it was perfect for him.

Ulquiorra felt Akira elbowing his side and lazily turned to him.

"Yo Ulqui-chan, let's draw something ne?" he smiled brightly and pointed to the empty sheets of paper by their table "She won't mind at all" he said referring to the teacher.

Ulquiorra decided it wouldn't be bad to kill time and silently stood up as Akira gave a small shout of victory. He picked up a mechanical pencil from the table that had all the materials and rapidly started sketching. He felt someone standing over his shoulder and ignored it as it was obviously Akira. His fingers danced easily with the pen. Ulquiorra had been talented in this department since his childhood.

The pencil felt comfortable in his fingers as it rolled around with ease. He enjoyed the feeling and the sound of graphitte rubbing against the smooth white surface. He had sketched a beautiful panther and he glanced proudly at his work. He felt hair tickling his neck and was about to tell Akira to move when he heard a deep voice.

"My, what a beautiful drawing" came a mocking voice.

Ulquiorra froze and looked behind him; it was that Jaegerjaquez guy who had a cocky grin playing on his lips. He gave him a death glare that could've made any lesser man drop dead on the spot but Grimmjow wasn't just any guy.

Grimmjow stared at the smaller boy, (or was it a girl?) well, he stared at the gender neutral person before him and gave him a playful smirk.

"The name is Grimmjow Jaegerjaquez." he said.

"And I don't care." came the reply from the smaller -now obviously- guy which made Grimmjow's eyes widen slightly, no one dared to talk to him like that and he wasn't gonna let this emo chibi be the first.

He chuckled darkly "You have no idea what you just got yourself into." he let his breath caress the other's pale neck and walked away laughing maniacally as the bell rung and everyone packed up their stuff. Ulquiorra had been left frozen and slighting shivering at the memory of the hot breath that passed by his neck.

He analyzed the current situation thoroughly and came to a conclusion:

This school is going to be the end of me.