Well heres part 1 the second half. This half I think sucks so bad…. Well I guess someone will somehow like it, well I hope so otherwise writing from 3am will have been a waste of my time… although that was my fault, couldn't sleep so I wrote….

"Well who else could you like in that way?" Orihime pondered.

"How slow can you be? Isn't it obvious? He loves you Orihime!" Grimmjow's frustration had gotten the better of him yet again.

"Is that true Ulquiorra?" Orihime asked. Grimmjow slammed his palm to his face as she did so. How could she be so dense?

"It doesn't matter much anymore, it only matters to me obviously but yes Orihime it's true," Ulquiorra swallowed his pride as he looked at Grimmjow's face.

Orihime sat there, an awkward silence passed between the three people in the room. It was something not one of them could stand. There were two things that irritated Grimmjow during this short time phrase, the fact it was silent apart from the sound of breaths being taken, and the fact Ulquiorra just sat there a defeated look on his face, he was rubbing circles into his own palm. Perhaps he was trying to calm himself down, perhaps he was trying to hide his emotions again like he usually did. It was Orihime who eventually broke the silence.

"I bought you both something for Christmas by the way," she spoke to both men.

"Thank you Orihime," both men replied in unison.

"You're welcome," Orihime beamed at both men, "now do you want to eat?"

Both men looked at each other neither of them knew what to say without offending Orihime in some way. It took them a while to co up with a believable excuse.

"I'm not hungry," they lied.

"Okay but remember you're eating tonight even if I have to force you to, it's for your own good," Orihime smiled as she stood up to leave the room. The two men nodded now dreading the evening meal.

Ulquiorra's eyes stared blankly out of the window at the sky, it was overcast. It reminded him of how Orihime had told him she wished she could be the rain, somehow connecting two hearts together. Ulquiorra had completely understood her sentence, he'd enjoyed her company, he still did but something told him he wouldn't see her as often any more, even if they did live in the same house. He tensed up at the thought.

Moments later two hands were rubbing his shoulders in a reassuring way, they eased his emotional pain a little as they traveled from his shoulder blades to his collar bones in a regular pattern. The hands only hesitated once yet continued after a couple of seconds.

"Grimmjow, why are you doing this?" Ulquiorra questioned.

"You want me to stop?"

"No it's helping a bit, I meant why do you suddenly care, is it a game you're playing with me?"

"No I genuinely care, I care a lot but you were too into Orihime to realize you still are," Grimmjow answered.

"I guess so," he agreed, "May I ask you something?"

"Go for it," Grimmjow answered still rubbing his former superior's shoulders.

"You're in love with someone right?" he asked. Grimmjow mentally face palmed, he was almost as dense as Orihime sometimes. Why is he so oblivious?

"Yeah but why do you ask?"

"I just wanted to know how that truly feels," Ulquiorra stated, "you see I've never been truly in love before, I don't know how it feels."

"What and I do?"

"Please just tell me how it feels, well how you think it feels."

"Fine," Grimmjow sighed, "it feels kind of bad at first because you think why? Then you pick out each and every flaw in yourself, and you go out of your way you get their company, no matter what. You'd protect that person with your life if you had to. When they're near your heart or what little heart you have in our case beats so fast against your chest it may as well break out of there."

"Then I guess what I feel for Orihime isn't true love, you see my heart doesn't quicken when she's near, perhaps it's this brotherly love she keeps referring to," Ulquiorra concluded.

"Do you feel true love for anyone?" Grimmjow questioned.

"Now I think about it I do," Ulquiorra replied.

"Are you going to tell me?" Grimmjow asked.

"Are you going to tell me, that is the question," Ulquiorra replied.

"Fine I suppose someone has to go first, well he is sometimes an idiot but a loveable idiot. He has the most amazing green eyes and his name begins with a U," Grimmjow smiled as he placed his hands on top of Ulquiorra's to get his point across.

"Is it me of all people you can have Grimmjow?" Ulquiorra asked, Grimmjow just gave a small nod before looking away. Ulquiorra simply gazed at the man knelt behind him, his hands on top of his own. He decided as a sign he felt the same he'd take his hands into his pale ones. Grimmjow just looked at the joined hands before he smiled to himself. Finally he knew.

A few hours later they both appeared in the dining room for their evening meal, they'd both prepared on how to politely decline the bean paste she insisted on putting on everything. She hummed to herself as she placed what looked like pancakes on their plates, whether they were edible or not was another thing altogether. Ulquiorra's stomach rumbled reminding him to feed himself, pink crawled up his face as a result of this.

"Well someone is hungry," Orihime smiled as she took her place at the table.

"I guess so," Ulquiorra replied.

"And you seem more content than earlier, which is nice," Orihime stated.

"Let's just say I worked something out," Ulquiorra shot her a small smile.

"Really may I ask what?" Orihime asked.

"Well Orihime I figured out what I feel for you is simply this brotherly love you keep referring to, thanks to Grimmjow I figured out my true feelings," Ulquiorra replied.

"That's good, glad the love isn't one sided because you both feel like brothers to me," Orihime smiled.

They finished their meal in silence after that, the two men thanked Orihime for their surprisingly edible meal as they collected the crockery together and even offered to wash it for her.

"It's okay I'll do it," Orihime insisted. The former Espada simply shrugged and left her to it, they then sat in the living room. Each man pondering two things, what would Orihime say when she found out and what were they going to do tomorrow? Perhaps the other man wouldn't want anything seeing as its too late to buy anything now anyway.