"She dreams for my success? What a kind girl" Aizen-sama looked contently out on to the sandy dunes of Las Noches.

"You don't think she was lying?" Ulqiorra is sitting on a white chair facing adjacently to the balcony Sosuke Aizen looked out on to. He decided to report to him of Orihime's eccentric behaviour.

"I know she was lying, but it is that lie that proves she is willing to obey us"

"Out of fear?"

"Out of naivety, that young woman is hoping by showing us allegiance we will show her friends mercy"

"That's absurd, she's very irrational"

One beat.

"Lord Aizen-sama, say the intruders do make it to her... what do you think she would do?"

"As you say Ulqiorra, dreams cause humans to do foolish things"

"Yes my lord" Ulqiorra rose from his seat and began to exit the room.

"Thank you for reporting in with me Ulqiorra, you're loyalty is unfathomable"

"I live to serve you lord Aizen-sama" with his final words to his master, Ulqiorra leaves Aizen alone once again.

"I'm coming in now"

Ulqiorra entered the room which was missing something that made him almost questioning his eyes which see everything,

Where was Orihime Inoue?

"Woman, where are you?" No sound was made in response to his question. He walked in further, not afraid of a surprise attack but after the conversation he had had with Lord Aizen he still stepped in with caution.

Impossible, she couldn't have escaped without my knowledge she wasn't in the physical or mental state to run away.

He then heard a line of short breaths followed with a small wimper. He walked further into the room to see the sad sight of Orihime Inoue sitting there, head in her knees sobbing like a lost child.

Ulqiorra bent down on to one knee and looked at the young woman deeply in the eyes. Her tears began to fall and she sniffled and tried to hold back the emotional burdens hanging on her shoulders. It was too much. This was all too much for one girl to go through with just the memory of faces of friends to keep her going.

"I want.. it back, all of it, Give me back my life" Ulqiorra stared at her, not moving a muscle and waiting for Orihime to finish her foolish emotional breakdown.

"I can't sleep, i dream of horrible situations filled with despair, and blood and death all for me, I shouldn't be here. Is this, is this the burden Kuchiki-san felt when we came to Soul Society? Is this the pain she had to endure!" Orihime was sobbing now not even caring her emotionless caretaker was seated right beside her. Hearing every word of defeat that passed her lips, every word brought out all of the fear that had been resonating in her soul to the surface.

A lack of sleep most likely caused this, I'm not here to comfort her, but I can't leave her so.. broken.

Ulqiorra calmly rose to his feet with Orihime looking up at him with sad eyes.

"What ar.. what are you doing?"

"Lie down."

Orihime was in no condition to refuse his orders so she unsteadily rose to her feet and laid herself down on the couch. It was hard, and uncomfortable but better than hunching over her knees on the cold, tiled floor.

"I will return, do not move woman" Ulqiorra using his sonido for the first time in front of Orihime was gone before she even opened her eyes.

"Ulqiorra-sama?" He's gone, no comfort he could bring me would ever stop this pain.

WAIT, Ulqiorra bringing me comfort? I can't be so overtired and desperate to think that Ulqiorra.. is even thinking of me.

Orihime turns around to face the back of the couch and drifts off to sleep. Before long she is in a deep slumber, hopefully one that will be without terror.

Ulqiorra uses his sonido to re-enter the room with a long, white blanket with black threading. He looks down at Orihime and realizes she had already fallen asleep without the item he thought would bring her enough comfort to get her to finally sleep without any commotion.

"Do you ever listen to me, woman?" Taking the blanket, he places it over her shivering body and feels a tingle near his mouth. His thin white lips perk slightly upwards into a non-chill ant grin.

A smile, this is all it makes a human feel? Such an expression is overused if this is all you feel..

He looked down to see a rarity as of late, Orihime Inoue herself was smiling.

Yet, when it is shared with someone else a completely new sensation arises.

"I see."

Ulqiorra makes his way over to the door and opens it, trying not to let too much light from the hallway enter the room. Leaving the sleeping beauty rest he begins to walk out of Orihime's room.

"Goodnight, Ulqiorra-sama"

Ulqiorra eyes widen and he simply nods as he exits the room

"Yes, Orihime"