-Espada Babysitting Service Gone Wrong-
Chapter 3 – Day 2: Hide and Seek
A/N. Uwahh more reviews! I totally agree with all of them: THEY'RE ALL SO CUTE ASDFGHJKL; Except for maybe Yammy, (who I forgot, thank you Libra-Peacock), and err Zommari. Just pretend that they're secretly there, but just had a personality change like Aizen and decided to turn very quiet :3
UPDATE: I changed my username/pen name (whatever e-e) to Amayano. Please don't get confused!
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Orihime's POV
"WAKEY WAKEY WAKEY! Up up up!" A cute yelling and constant little pounds on my abdomen woke me up. I blinked the sleep out of my eyes and focused my vision on who was on me. On me, was little Aizen and little Gin. Aizen was jumping up and down on me while Gin was pounding softly on my stomach.
"Hurray! She's up! She's up!" Aizen got off me and jumped up and down. Gin then started pulling my hair, though with his child strength, it didn't hurt too much.
"We wanna play a game! Others are already up~!" Gin explained. I slowly sat up, and remembered the recent events that happened.
"Huh..? What about my breakfast?" I asked them. They froze. Aizen pouted and crossed his tiny arms.
"Arrancar got something called toast! We already ate! It's your turn, so hurry up and play!" He exclaimed and pointed to the food cart. I stood up and walked over to the food cart, picking up a piece of toast. Well, it's not much, but it'll do, I thought, eating the plain toast. After I finished and swallowed my last bite, Aizen tugged on my skirt.
"The others are already prepared!" He pointed out the door and led me out. Once we were out, he yelled loudly, "SHE READY!" There was little shuffling and tiny noises as it echoed throughout the empty halls of Las Noches.
"We're playing hide and seek! Close your eyes!" Gin explained and pointed to my eyes. I blinked. Hide and seek?
"..Err, where?" I nervously asked, hoping it wouldn't be everywhere in Las Noches.
"Where else? Las Noches~!" Gin jumped up and down. I froze in horror. This would take a hell of a long time. I thought. "However, Ulquiorra wanted to stay with you! He said you needed a guide!" Gin pointed to Ulquiorra, who was still in the room and was now walking towards me.
"Close your eyes! And count to sixty!" Aizen ordered. I sighed and covered my eyes with my hands.
"Onna! Don't open your eyes!" Ulquiorra said. I giggled a little.
"I promise I won't open," I replied. He let out a little 'hmph' as a reply. "One...two...three...four..."
-Time Skip to Sixty-
"...Fifty-eight,...fifty-nine...sixty! Ready or not, here I come!" I finished counting. I removed my hands from my eyes and looked down at Ulquiorra. "Where should we go first?" I asked him. He then had a slight blush on his cheeks.
"...Need better view..." He muttered loud enough for me to here. I smiled and picked him up. He then climbed over my shoulder and onto my back, like Yachiru-chan does to Kenpachi.
"Alright then. Where do you think should we go first?" I asked him again. He pointed down a hallway.
"Throne room!" He exclaimed. I nodded and went down the hallway.
"Are you sure it's this way?" I asked after about ten long minutes of walking down the straight hallway. He nodded.
"Turn here!" He ordered. However, there was a path to my right and a path to my left. I sweat dropped.
"Turn which way?"
"That way!" He pointed to the right. I followed his directions. Sure enough, we reached the throne room pretty soon. "Big..." He whispered in amazement.
"So high..." I muttered. Suddenly, we heard echoed little shouts. We both looked at each other and nodded. I ran over to where the sound was, which was behind some columns. I struggled to climb the wall, but eventually I climbed over it. I stood up and walked closer to the columns. The shouts were getting clearer now.
"She'll find me first! Sh!"
"Good! I don't care if you get found first!"
"Baka! You're yelling too loud!"
"Says the one who's yelling louder!"
"SHH! Did you hear that?!"
"Hear what?"
"Shh!"
The shouts ceased as I crept closer. I finally went around the columns and saw Grimmjow and Szayel fighting. They were trying to push each other out from behind the column.
"Um...I found you!" I exclaimed. They both stopped, and slowly turned their head to face me. Their faces paled.
"You were too loud!" Grimmjow yelled to Szayel.
"You're the one who didn't hear her footsteps, baka!" Szayel yelled back. I was panicking, trying to figure out how to stop the fight.
"A-Ah...do you want to come with me?" I asked. They stopped arguing, and stood up. They patted off invisible dirt and went over to me.
"Pick me up, woman!" Grimmjow demanded with his arms up. "It's not fair Ulquiorra gets to be like that!" He pointed to Ulquiorra. I giggled and picked him up. He immediately crawled onto my back like Ulquiorra did, but on my other shoulder now.
"Do you want to be picked up, Szayel?" I asked him. He shook his head.
"No thank you." He 'hmph'ed and crossed his arms. I slowly got down and helped Szayel get down afterwards.
"Grimmjow, do you have an idea where the others went?" I asked him.
"Uh...Gin might be in the control room thingy." Grimmjow replied, puffing out his cheeks. Szayel shook his head.
"Nope."
I sighed. This was going to be a long day. "Alright then. Where's the control room?" I asked them. They sweat dropped.
"Dunno." They simultaneously replied. I face palmed.
"Well, I heard steps going to the place where the meetings are!" Grimmjow told me.
"And where is that?" I asked him.
"This way. Follow me." Szayel pushed up his glasses and started running. I quickly – sort of – followed him. We then reached a room with a long table with chairs all around it.
"So big! So this is where you take your meetings?" I exclaimed. Ulquiorra nodded. We then heard a soft sound of liquid being poured into a cup. The smell of tea drafted into our noses.
"Tea?" Szayel sniffed again. We followed the sound and saw an Arrancar pouring tea into a cup. We looked down and saw Gin eagerly waiting. He then noticed us and pouted.
"So early? I didn't think I'd get caught quickly!" He sat down on the floor, eagerly drinking the tea. He sighed in content. "Aah~. Ne, I'll help you in your search!" He smiled as he usually does. "Lollipop please." He told the Arrancar. The Arrancar then whipped out a lollipop out of nowhere and gave it to Gin.
"...Lollipop?" I tilted my head. He nodded and took off the wrapping.
"I discovered these in the human world! They taste great!" He exclaimed and put the lollipop in his mouth. Gin then stood up. "Kay! Let's go!" He stayed by my side while Szayel was kind of diagonal to me on my other side.
"Where else could they be?" I pondered for a moment. Where would Aizen be? Err where would he be in his normal state and in his child state? He did like tea and cake, so maybe the kitchen. But then the normal Aizen would probably be in the other throne room...
"The kitchen! Woman, let's go to the kitchen!" Grimmjow pulled on my hair while Ulquiorra softly pulled on my ear. Maybe the kitchen would be Aizen's hiding spot...
"Hai, hai! I don't exactly remember the route, so lead the way!" I laughed a little. I followed Szayel out of the hallway when he stopped.
"...I don't remember the way." He admitted sheepishly. I sighed.
"Ulquiorra-kun, do you remember?" I asked him. He nodded.
"That way, onna!" He pointed straight ahead. I nodded and ran. I didn't run so fast that I left Szayel and Gin behind, but not slow enough either so that their energetic bodies surpass mine. Suddenly, I tripped over something. Luckily, I caught myself.
I looked behind me and saw Starkk sleeping on the floor, drooling. We all sweat dropped. I knelt down next to Starkk and gently shook him. "Starkk? Wakey wakey?"
He groaned a bit but he didn't wake up. I shook him a little harder. Grimmjow then leapt off my shoulder and jumped straight onto Starkk's stomach. He woke up instantly.
"ITAI!" He cried out. Grimmjow then went onto my back again in his usual position.
"Are you awake now?" I asked Starkk. He nodded.
"What's the *yawn* commotion?" He asked, sitting up and rubbing his eyes. I blinked.
"Weren't you playing hide and seek?" I tilted my head, confused.
"So that's what it was about? Someone that looked like Aizen was running towards the kitchen saying 'Hide and seek! Hide and seek!' So sleepy..." Starkk yawned and fell back asleep.
"He said that Aizen went towards the kitchen! Let's go!" Gin pointed ahead. I nodded and ran to the kitchen on Gin's and Ulquiorra's directions. We reached the kitchen, which was still big and grand in all its glory. Is it just me or are there more cabinets than I saw last time? I thought, sweat dropping.
"Let's ask her," Ulquiorra pointed to the female Arrancar who was about to finish cooking. We walked up to her.
"Excuse me, but have you seen a childlike Aizen come inside here?" I asked her. She blinked and shook her head.
"I heard some noises, but I'm sure I would've noticed somebody coming inside here." She replied, and took her finished food onto a cart and went out the kitchen.
"That leaves only us in the kitchen. Let's try the spice cabinets!" Grimmjow pointed to the many cabinets lining up on the wall. I sighed and opened the first one. No luck. The second, third, fourth and even the fifth didn't have any clue either. However, the sixth one showed signs that somebody was there because all the spice bottles were knocked over and spilling everywhere in the cabinet.
"Where next? Fridge?" Ulquiorra suggested. I followed his pointing finger to the gigantic fridges. There were 3 in total.
"Why is everything here big?" I couldn't help but ask. Grimmjow frowned.
"Of course it's big! Otherwise it's not grand!" He answered. I laughed at his childlike – to me – answer. I opened the first fridge and found Tier and Tousen hiding in there.
"I told you we shouldn't hide in there! It's freezing!" Tousen complained.
"It is not." Tier told him calmly and jumped out of the fridge, with Tousen following her. I then shut the fridge.
"Where's Aizen?" Ulquiorra asked her. She blinked.
"Aizen...?" She repeated slowly. We all nodded.
"He may have come in here, we don't know. We were the first ones to go out of the room and find a hiding place, so it's a possibility Aizen went into the kitchen while we were in the fridge." Tier shrugged.
"We would give you their whereabouts but like Tier said, we were already locked and set in the fridge." Tousen crossed his arms.
"Try the tea cabinet," Tier suggested. Gin and Szayel climbed up the counters and opened all the tea cabinets. Aizen wasn't there, however.
"Who was in the last spice cabinet then?" I muttered to myself. Ulquiorra heard, and shrugged.
"Onna. Aaroniero does not like light." Ulquiorra informed me. I mentally made a note to keep that in mind.
"What about the other cabinets we haven't checked?" I pointed to the three cabinets that we left alone. Gin and Szayel slowly crept upon it.
"Hear anything, Szayel?" Gin put his ear to one of the cabinets.
"No...not yet, at least!" Szayel whispered back as he put an ear to the other cabinet. They opened the cabinets in a flash. There, in the middle cabinet, was Nnoitra sitting covered in flour.
"Wha! H-How'd you find me?!" He yelled, pointing an angry finger to me. I giggled at how messy he was.
"Get yourself cleaned up. At least your face." I told him as I brought him down to the counter. I grabbed a towel, slightly dampened it, and gently wiped off the flour from his face. He blushed madly in embarrassment.
"I-I don't need your help!" He exclaimed. I giggled as I wiped off the remaining flour off his face.
"Come on, we're going to find the rest of the Espada!" I told him. He nodded and walked sort of behind Szayel.
Aaroniero was easy to find – he was in his palace where it was nice and dark. Barragan and Zommari were in the room where the Hogyoku was kept. Yammy was at the place where his arm was healed before. But the question was – where was Aizen?
"Where could Aizen be hiding?" Grimmjow muttered. We walked nearly all around Las Noches, and Aizen was nowhere to be found. I bit my bottom lip nervously. I hope he's not lost or anything. Wait, this is Las Noches, and this is Aizen we're talking about. Even as a kid, he should still know the layout of Las Noches. I hope he doesn't get hurt. I thought.
"Onna! Let's try the areas around your room! We've been exploring everywhere around Las Noches except for some areas that are near your room! Let's go!" Ulquiorra informed me.
"Eh? But considering the distance we walked, it must be far away." I pointed out.
"But Ulquiorra's right, as much as I hate to admit it," Grimmjow said. I sighed and smiled.
"Alright alright, we'll go that way. But keep a good lookout to see if Aizen is hiding in the hallways, too!" I told them. They all did a mini salute.
"Hai!" They simultaneously said. I giggled at the cute sight of it. A mini and chibi army. I thought, giggling more at the thought of it. Instead of running, we decided to take a nice walk towards my room. Nnoitra then tugged on my skirt.
"Hm?" I looked down at him.
"Pick me up!" He demanded. I picked him up as he settled for a piggyback ride, fitting right between Ulquiorra and Grimmjow. Surprisingly, they weren't all that heavy.
"Which way now?" There was a fork in our path. Ulquiorra puffed out his cheeks.
"This way. It leads directly to your room. From there on, we can explore the areas near it." Tier instructed. We all nodded in agreement and went down the said path. We reached the room, and decided to check the hot springs near it. At first, I was surprised that there was a hot spring in Las Noches, or even Hueco Mundo.
"Wahh~! I'm going here sometime!" I exclaimed as I saw the expected large hot springs. Steam emitted from it, but not so much that we couldn't see. Unfortunately, Aizen wasn't here.
We checked a bunch of other places, too. We discovered the control room, where Gin used to watch other people when he was in his 'normal state'. We went to another mini kitchen, we went to other vacant rooms, and even the Fraccions' rooms. However, we couldn't find him. We then decided to just give up and go back to my room.
"I wonder what happened to him," I said as we sat down in a circle and started thinking up ideas on where Aizen might be. Suddenly, I felt something hard impact my face and head, covering my vision. I fell back, startled.
"Haha! You couldn't find me!" I heard a familiar childish voice. I gently pried off what was on me, and found it was Aizen. I gasped and pulled him into a bone-crushing hug.
"Where were you?! I was worried!" I told him.
"I was in this room! You didn't bother checking it!" He got out of my grasp and stuck his tongue out. I laughed.
"Okay, you win, you win. What do you want for a reward?" I asked him, placing him in my lap. He puffed out his right cheek and crossed his arms.
"You! And tea!" He pointed to me. I laughed so hard that some tears began to form. I wiped away the unborn tears. "What's so funny?!" He pouted.
I slowly stopped laughing and smiled. "Nothing. Your answer was just cute, that's all. How about you sleep with me tonight?" I suggested. His face immediately brightened. Then, Grimmjow tackled me to the ground.
"Not fair! I'm gonna sleep with you too!" He exclaimed.
"Onna! I'm going to sleep with you too!" Ulquiorra announced.
And so, all of the Espada slept on the same bed with me. What an eventful day, I thought before my eyes closed shut.
SO...MUCH...CUTENESS! As the author, how much longer am I going to survive?! I just so badly want to be in Orihime's position and JUST SQUEEZE THE LIFE OUT OF THEM 3 I seriously enjoyed this chapter ;3 A little cuteness of AiHime, perhaps? Maybe a little cuteness pairing, as I should call them, for each chapter maybe. *shrugs* I actually know what to write for the next chapter XD Usually I just think of an idea right on the spot when I'm like about to write this :3 So here's the title of the next chapter to give you an idea of next chapter
Day 3: A Surprise From Grimmjow
x3 A little GrimmHime then? This COULD be a harem XD
~Kitsune-Dark-Knight
