Chapter Four: Awkward Meeting

Warning: Fighting, Humor, romance, OCCness, drama, odd moments, hurt/comfort, supernatural, emo moments, sexual thoughts

Songs: Dig by Incubus, Stone Sour - Bother

Rating: PG-17

Memories…

Floods of those memories and that place haunted her mind in moments of seeing one of the pillars and triggers of these haunting nightmares that now threaten to engulf her soul on the spot as hands dug into the wall she leaned on. Scarping her nails on the grey stone for the moment as the ache laced her soft finger tips as those eyes peered at the woman from under ashen locks. Both locket maybe for moments to hours to both as only the sounds of the rain falling hit the ground and echoed them a cage of memories.

Part of her wanted to run and leave in seeing his once more, always those jade eyes had burned some place into her heart of that place. That hell she chosen to step into just to save her friends and her weakness used against her to cast out a net to temp those friends to come to her aid and many had paid a bloody price for her one choice those few years ago. Chest rising and falling as her body fought to flee also so much like the wounded animal she was but also it was something about those eyes that kept her from running, something more maybe peeking in hidden depths.

This man…

Orihime looked away for a moment and glanced at the side walk that no one of a normal idea would be walking in this type of setting yet looking back her eyes lightly opened a touch wider. He had passed out? Seeing his chest framed by the rags of his notable uniform and the blanket he had used as a clock of sorts shone there was some slightly color to the once parch white skin. Then more of the shock in looking at his chest also said the truest statement to the once captive.

"His hollow hole is gone over his heart? Also so is his number Four tattoo?" Her mind whispered as azure eyes for the moment casting back and forth on where both had once laded on the flesh. Something of a faded shallow scar lay over his heart once empty. "What happened to him? Is he human now?"

Casting out her senses just a touch as taught, she found his aura to very normal to that a normal human if any ever born. Looking down more over his body to see if anything of the once Espada remained was the only hint of his uniform but seeing the man's torn and bleeding feet even made her wince in . Fighting the urge to cast some cowards glance at his face, Orihime knew she had too to look just to make sure none of this was some illusion.

His sharp eyes now lay closed as the filter daylight cast a hint of shadows over his high cheek bones framed in ashen locks roughly cast out. The once tear lines on his skin where faded and looked old but still remained as a remember of who and what this man had once been back in the years yet no mask also lay on his features nor to crown his head. There was something also pristine looking about the young male even she could not place but it lingered on the air around him, Maybe a fine line also that he did seem almost doll like if not for that same line that filtered there was something very male in his lanky built and a sense of underplaying danger he once held over her. Ulquiorra also did not look fully Japanese from the slight wide touch to his eyes but what else lay in him?

What cast out her looking was the ragged breathe he took in informing her he was sick or hurt. "What a fool I am! Here I am day dreaming and I am letting him lay out in the open and cold!"

Still before moving, the question was it safe to even touch him and even bring this man into house? In his current state, Orihime knew she could easily use her powers to protect herself from him if was now truly human as it seemed and looked to her eyes and senses. Add in the need to always help those who needed to be healed has long ago burned itself into very core of who the woman was no matter who or what they had once been. Pulling the leather jacket tighter around her body and glad she had chosen jeans today did help to chase away the cold.

"Thankfully I am on the first floor this time, if it was my old place I might have had to call for help…" muttering under lips while chewing on the lower one in nerves. "Ok Orihime lets see if working in the bakery has paided off in some upper body growth!"

Walking to the sleeping male made her stiffen in knowing she had to touch him as one finger lightly went out to make contact with his cheek. Ulquiorra's flesh was chilled from the dampness and even wet but there was that all too human warmth under the pale flesh. Pulling out the pent up breathe also added to the tension air of this meeting. Swallowing a bit before moving to phase two, she knelt down to work an arm under his left side and pulled his right over her own shoulders. Also more then glad she had taken up running these years to keep in shape helped in the leg strength for the next few feet of getting him home.

Moving to standing, she blinked in how light he felt to her also, noting how his ribs shown as the cloth moved from the position. Had he eaten? How long had he been human? Nothing of these questions was going to answer till Ulquiorra woke up. So something in a half drags and walking with nothing but dead weight did not help but Orihime did make it to her door and all the more glad she had left it unlocked this morning.

Wincing a bit in finding it odd trying not to drop the former Espada to even open the door, "He's really passed out cold…"

Her knew home was smaller then her last and a bit cheaper with the futon still out from this morning. It was not like a lot of people came to apartment these days sadly. Orihime made it the last few feet to lay the man down on her bed and quickly shut the door and turned the heat up to chase away the chill of the rainy air. Huffing from the walk, she pushed away the golden locks of bangs to look back at the man to see still out.

"I got to get those wet cloths off of him…" blushing in the shocking fact for the first time she had to undress a man and it was one who had held her caged. "This seems it should be out of a shoujo manga!"

Words of a nerves laugh only added in the increasing tense moment for the woman, gulping down the air of the room and pulling off her own shoes and reaching into the drawers to pull out a simple baby blue t-shirt and a pair of old jeans a bit big. Getting into some dry cloths might help her nerves in looking down and seeing how her cloths looked more painted on with the outline of her bra lines pushing out. Giggling as the mental images hit her mind, maybe she had been reading to many romance novels again?

Changing in moments, Orihime breathed on her hands to warm them as she padded over to the still sleeping man but he seemed to shivering. His chest rose and fell to own rhythm for the moment as he seemed also child like in sleeping with out the platonic expression on his face he once masked. Lightly pulling away the wet blanket, her eyes noted how torn his uniform was but had it been from a recent fight? Shaking her head a bit in finding no wounds save those on his poor bare feet. It was odd to pull away the jacket and she lightly noted it was old looking, as if years had passed on it but how? Nothing was making sense right now but there one was big problem Orihime did not.

Ulquiorra had no type of underwear on under his pants. Had Aizen made them not have any on?

Gulping down the air and placing the jacket on the side, she was about to see a naked man? Blushing a crimson on her cheeks to reach her ears made the healer want to run away. She had never seen a naked man less much even touch a man!

"I need a blanket! I can over him with it and pull down his pants with out looking! Easy right Prhime!" Muttering as she ran to the closet out to pull out a blanket covered with bunnies and moons. "You can do this! Be a man or ah woman!"

Placing the blanket over his body, she licked her parched lips and moved to reach under the blanket and feel the edge of his pants. Closing her eyes she yanked and pulled them down over his lanky legs and felt the heat of his skin, blushing all the more in what she might see if the blanket slipped! Standing up, she peeked open an eye to see herself holding the pants and letting out the pensive air in her chest. Adding n the luck the blanket had thankfully moved about an inch or two! Seeing the bare chest and frame of the passed out Espada now human made the woman feel out of place in her own home.

"I have a naked guy in my bed…"

Gentle putting the pants with the jacket, Orihime now had no idea on what to do with the man. Did she call Urahara-sun? What would he do and or would his contact the shinigami? What would they do to this helpless man now passed out and sleeping like a child in her bed? Why had he also found her? Shaking her head and thinking it might be better to weight till she could talk to Ulquiorra on everything that had come to this point. Casting a worried gaze at the sleeping man and once more looking out the window in thoughts floating by.

Unknown to her, his breath deepened a moment in feeling the chill leaving his skin and picking up the scent of honey close by. Eyes blinking a moment in the shadows with out a light on to see a blurry figure of a female of some kind. Then came a gentle touch to his forehead as the heat strike like lighting in the pure contact of flesh, trying to place in where he had felt this life before. Trying to cast a glance at who this was as his mind was once more pulled back into the darkness of unconscious with the words chasing his mind.

"You're safe…"

Notes: Well one more slow type of chapter in Hime finding Mr Emo but I thought it would be a good one to show a few things. I mean how would you feel in finding someone you thought dead? Also some light humor of a naked guy in our poor girls place! Hah! And I know a little occ maybe for some taste of people but its been a few years so all kids got to grow up and I do not think Hime would be as child like as sometimes shown in the anime/manga after living after the Winter War.

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