A/n: I own nothing. An x-mas gift for Sunky0ne because I was told she liked Cherry and it's the best way to ensure I don't kill any characters. Slice of life CherryPOV.
Cherry slipped quietly through the dark halls of Las Noches, jumping at every sound. There were bad, unnatural things in the strange cave system. She hid in the shadows behind one of the rock-trees that grew into the roof. The bitter musk in her nose belonged to the one her human called Nnoitra, she could smell the wariness on her Gin whenever they were forced to be together and knew to be scared.
She waited for him to walk by and continued cautiously on her way, prowling down the hard stone cave floor until the scent she'd been following became stronger, concentrated. Her prey had stopped moving, possibly having bedded down. She nosed the dead tree-piece that protected human dens. She was relieved when it opened at the pressure, sometimes they didn't and she would have had to scratch or wait. She didn't want to be stuck in dark hallway alone.
She moved through the den following the scent. It reminded her of the flying rabbits that populated normal caves, but stronger and with a burned tang. Empty green eyes rose to look at her.
"You're Gin-sama's" Ulquiorra said. She leaped unto the bed and wagged her tail with pride. "You shouldn't be here."
She cocked her head and gave small growl to say 'you're not my boss', that accomplished she bumped her head against his hand. Lonely humans liked it when she did this. Apparently, he was the same because he began petting her. This continued for several minutes before he picked her up in a manner very similar to her Gin.
"You're going back to Gin-sama before he thinks I took you," Ulquioraa explained quietly. She wagged her tail slowly, glad to be returned but feeling defeated. She could still feel the Tension and smell the stress on him still. He slapped his hand against her Gin's den-protector and it opened to reveal an annoyed, bleary-eyed Gin. She had come to associate this with the phrase 'For god's sake it's something o'clock in the morning'. She had no idea what this meant but knew it was the inevitable response if she woke him to close to sunrise though how close was allowed seemed to vary.
"Sorry to disturb you Gin-sama, this made its way to my room. "
"Ugh, thanks Ulq," her Gin mumbled and she was passed between them. She quickly nuzzled closer to his familiar scent, a bit of her own, a faint trace of her mate, the dominant, older smell of his own mate and something uniquely him. The Gin-smell was good, relaxed, neither particularly submissive nor dominant and a bit flowery. Ulq and her Gin yipped at each other some more and then Gin carried her into his den and settled her next to him as they bedded down together. She snuffled contently and nuzzled into his arm.
The next day she sat on his lap through a long 'meeting'. It was boring and took forever and she couldn't even doze because they kept yipping and barking. She couldn't even understand most of it. She used to be upset whenever her Gin went to a 'meeting' because he wouldn't take her. Since they had come to the night-world he always brought her, if she was on 'best-behavior'. She wasn't sure which was worse. Finally, it was over and he let her down. She quickly darted off looking for something interesting, her claws clicked uncomfortably against the stone as she ran along. Eventually she slowed and strolled into a room with a noisy box, 'tee-vee' her Gin had called it. The room smelled like a cat and she growled a little out of instinct, even though she knew it was just one of the not-humans that populated the cave system.
She suddenly noticed his spiky blue pelt on the 'couch'. She'd been curious about it ever since arriving here. It looked so different from her Gin's soft, silver fur and she'd wondered what it felt like. She leaped over the side of the 'couch' to pounce on it. She screeched in surprise as she was thrust into the air and scrabbled with her claws for purchase. The not-human she'd landed on howled and while she didn't understand the words, she knew they conveyed anger.
She felt distinctly motion sick as he tried to shake her off which only succeeded in getting her claws more tangled. She hissed and struggled, scared now as the not-human kept howling. Finally, she fell free and twisted to land awkwardly on the 'couch'. The not-human roared and lunged for her as she leaped off the 'couch' and bolted, ignoring the pain in her hind leg as she tracked the scent of her Gin, running for all she was worth with the not-human thundering after her, still yelling anger-words.
Her claws skittered as she took a corner, the cat-scented, not-human hard on her tail. She dodged behind her Gin's legs and cowered, trying to look as 'adorable' as possible. She didn't know exactly what that was, but she knew what actions and poses got her that praise.
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Grimmjow pulled up just shy of smashing into him and Gin stared at the panting arrancar. He then looked down at Cherry cowering behind him.
He reached for his sword, "You got a problem with Cherry-chan? What could a little fox have possibly done to you?"
He actually was a little curious, the arrancar's eyes blazed with rage and blood dripped into them from under his hairline.
"That mongrel…I was just…" he looked between Gin glaring death and Cherry who had laid down and was hiding her muzzle between her paws. "Ah screw it," he muttered and walked away.
When he was out of earshot Gin let his hand drop from Shinsou's hilt and picked up Cherry-chan. He check her over, she appeared unharmed and licked him before staring up innocently. He laughed.
"What the hell did you do girl?" He would have sworn she grinned as her tail started to wag furiously. Gin sighed and carried her away chuckling, "Well whatever it was, he probably had it coming eh?" she yipped as if agreeing.