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Black Forest


After the little chit-chat, Aizen had allowed Zero to stay. Nothing went wrong with the people of Hueco Mundo nor Zero himself. In the week or two that Zero stayed in Hueco Mundo, all he did was watch the people doing their daily activities since Aizen had allowed him to walk around whenever he wants. The Espada either didn't mind it as long as Zero didn't interrupt their work. Zero was now in his room, lying on his bed. His eyes closed and his both hands were on the back of his head, he was listening to his I-Pod (Aizen gave him an Unlimited Credit Card which I don't even know why!), the song was I Hate Everything about You by Three Days Grace. He had been listening to it over and over again. After listening it for the twentieth time, he took a deep breath and sighed, opening his eyes halfway.

'Damn I'm bored! Mister Ulquiorra is busy with his mountain of paper work! I wonder if that's the reason why Mister Ulquiorra is so thin and deadly pale!' he thought to himself. He closed his eyes and sighed in frustration. He sat on the bed, his legs on the side bed he pondered there for a moment before he decided to wonder around Las Noches again, hoping to find someone, ANY one that was not busy for awhile. Zero wondered through the white hallways, while on his way, he stopped and hid behind the shadows of the corner wall. He saw that Grimmjow was pissed off while talking to Ulquiorra. Well, talking would not quite cut it…more of a heated discussion! Looks like I managed to hide my appearance perfectly!

"Who the HELL you are?! My God?!" yelled Grimmjow.

"It was Aizen-sama's order, Sexta", Ulquiorra replied with his favorite, and only, stoic voice, hands on his pocket.

"Fuck Aizen! Agh! You know what? I hate you! I fucking hate everything about you!"

"Like I care", Grimmjow walked away without bothering to stop when Ulquiorra spoke.

"Don't you dare to go to the Human World without Aizen-sama's permissions", Ulquiorra last warned.

"Whatever!" he replied. Grimmjow turned and left around the corner, out of Ulquiorra's sight. Ulquiorra silently sighed; he turned and went to his room. After Ulquiorra's form disappeared, Zero came out from his hiding spot. He looked at the hallway where Ulquiorra took to get back to his room, and then he looked the other hallway that Grimmjow took, remembering the sentences that Grimmjow spoke.

'Hate everything about you? ', he thought for awhile before he shook his head and turned to go back to his room, forgetting his wish to find someone to play with. The next day, Ulquiorra entered Zero's room without knocking. Zero turned to find Ulquiorra pushing a tray of food with him, it was time for Zero's lunch since Ulquiorra had been put charge of Zero for obvious reasons.

"Mister Ulquiorra! Let me help you!" Zero happily took the eating utensils and the food to the lone table in his room. While Zero took his food to the table, Ulquiorra just stood silently beside the tray, examined Zero's movement who was now sit and eat his lunch like a good boy. Ulquiorra just watched silently. Zero could feel his gaze boring holes in him. He turned his head to Ulquiorra.

"Mister is something wrong?" he asked, looking at him innocently. Ulquiorra looked back at him.

'He acts as he isn't in enemy territory. . . I don't feel any fear air around him. . . This boy has the weakest reiatsu of all people that I have met before, but . . . he has the strangest power that I ever saw in my existence . . . Is he a necromancer? No, I don't need to know his abilities . . . The main thing is why is he happy being surround by the enemy and why he happily stayed within enemy territory?' by that, Ulquiorra was done with his conclusion, but left with a countless questions. He closed his eyes and desperately sighed; he never thought that he would think deeper, way too deep about the boy.

Ulquiorra opened his eyes and saw Zero sat up and ran to the north wall of his room, then Zero turned himself to the east and stretching his legs, it was like he was measuring the length of the floor. He started counting; Ulquiorra just stared at him with question.

"1. . . 2 . . . 3 . . . 4!" after 4 stretching, he turned to face the wall, again; he then drew a circle with black crayon! Ulquiorra couldn't handle his curiosity anymore. The boy made too weird actions!

"What are you doing? . . ." he suddenly widened his eyes in disbelieving. The circle that Zero drew a second ago turned black and half of his body was inside the circle.

"Wait a sec, Mister! Damn! Where is it? Where IS it? . . . Found it!" Zero was holding something in his hand, then ran back to him, showing the object that Zero found. It was on a round plate, it was also round, but not like a ball, it was like a huge flat round tube with 23cm diameter and height was 10 cm covered with some frozen deep dark brown. On top was covered with something white, but soft with many kinds of berries in the middle. Ulquiorra raised a brow on it.

'What in the name of Aizen-sama is this?' he thought to himself. Saw the confuse emotion, Zero took a piece of the 'object' with a fork and without any warn, he shoved it in into Ulquiorra's mouth. Ulquiorra widened his eyes at the sudden action; he felt the cold steel inside his mouth. Zero then pulled the fork out, he smiled that the 'object' was already inside Ulquiorra's mouth. Ulquiorra still didn't move a muscle, still in shock, he didn't know what to do. At the same time he felt disgust that the weird 'object' was in his mouth! His own damn mouth! Zero saw that Ulquiorra still had not recovered from his sudden action, he spoke.

"What are you waiting for? Chew it and swallow!" Ulquiorra still didn't want to chew or swallow this piece of . . . whatever its name was!

'I will never ever swallow this piece of trash. I will never!' he swore to himself. Zero got irritated with Ulquiorra's disagreement to swallow it.

"Mister Ulquiorra! Just chew it! Is it that hard just to chew and swallow it? Or are you thinking that this cake is poison, then I'm going to eat it!" he then took another piece of the so called cake with the same fork and ate it, chewed it and swallowed it.

"See! I'm totally fine! Nothing wrong! Now chew it, Mister Ulquiorra", tried getting the command from the boy, he started to chew it. In his mouth, he felt something soft, little bit hard, but not too hard and . . . sweet! He froze at the taste.

"Now swallow it!" another command Zero gave, Ulquiorra just followed it. After Ulquiorra swallowed it, there was a silent between them. Zero grinned widely.

"So, how's the taste?" Ulquiorra stared at Zero for a moment before he replied.

"Sweet,"

"Of course, it's sweet! Wait! You . . . never ate this . . . before?" Zero asked in careful voice.

"We Arrancar don't need food to survive", Zero widened his eyes and blinked in disbelieve.

"What?! All you people have never had cake before?! I will end my life if I don't eat cake!"

"Why? Is this piece of trash more worth than your own life?"

"It's not like that! Well, it's hard to explain! But this kind of sweet is very important for your stamina!"

"I call that nonsense,"

"Well, I don't care with whether you agree with my opinion or not! Now you must finish this! Don't leave any piece of it, or else I'll shove it down your throat!" Zero gave him a piece of cake in triangle shape, Ulquiorra didn't touch it, and then Zero continued.

"I mean it!" he warned. Ulquiorra took the plate; he sat down on a couch and started to eat it. Zero was on the other side of the couch, his elbow was on the couch's rest hand, and he rested his head on his hands. At first, Ulquiorra felt want to puke, but then it was gone from disgust into fond of, he started to like the taste of the cake. It was so sweet and little bit sour, just little bit because of the berries. Zero watched as Ulquiorra started to eat little bit faster than usual, and then he noticed something. Ulquiorra left the blueberries uneaten. After the cake was finish, Ulquiorra started to eat the blueberries. He ate them carefully and slowly, Zero smiled at the action.

'Oh~! Looks who's in love with the blueberry?' he teased him in his mind. After he finished everything, Ulquiorra put the plate on his lap; both of his hands were on the sides of the plate.

"Its name is Black Forest!" Ulquiorra turned his head to face the smiling boy.

"Excuse me?"

"The cake name is Black Forest! I don't know why its name like that, but the name fits the cake! Maybe it's because the cake was covered by dark chocolate with berries on top!" Ulquiorra looked down at the empty plate as he repeated the name.

"Black Forest . . ." Zero now sat beside Ulquiorra who still looked at the plate, Ulquiorra looked at the now sitting boy but his smile still on.

'Why does he always smile?' he thought to himself before asked the same question to Zero. "Why do you always smile?"

"Why? I don't know! Maybe it's already my habit to always smile! Why don't you smile?" Zero asked back.

"Because I don't need it. Emotion will make you become weak and useless, like trash", Ulquiorra turned to face the wall in front of him.

"Really? My brother once told me that if you smile, you will forget the feeling of despair and no matter how hard, unfair, and cruel the world is, he told me to keep smiling because it helps you lighten the problems that you face"

"Why do you want to see me smile?"

"Well, I was wondering how you look like when you smile!" Zero raised his head to look at the ceiling, his forefinger on his mouth; Ulquiorra stared at him from the corner of his eyes without bothering to turn his face. After a moment of thinking, Zero looked at Ulquiorra, his eyes were half lid and he smiled mischievously. "Maybe, you will look more beautiful, if you smile! Oh, I get it now!" Zero hit his hand to his palm. "You don't want to smile because people will fall for you, right?" he winked to Ulquiorra. Ulquiorra fully turned around, he frowned at the thought.

"Didn't I tell you before? I do not need such thing! It will only make me look weaker, you stupid trash," Ulquiorra tried to speak as normal as he could, but his voice cracked.

"Oh! Or maybe you already have a crush on someone! Tell me who!"

"What do you mean 'crush'?"

"You know! When people fell in love, they always have someone special in mind!"

"I do not have a crush on someone either,"

"Mister Grimmjow!" suddenly Zero mentioned.

"What?"

"Your Prince Charming is Mister Grimmjow, right?" Ulquiorra didn't feel the blood rush up to his face. Zero saw the pink tint on Ulquiorra's face, Zero laughed in victory.

"I do not love him. Why did you mention the Sexta Espada, of all people in Hueco Mundo?" Ulquiorra felt very embarrassed by the boy.

"What's that tiny blush on your cheeks for then, huh?" Zero mocked, pointing one of Ulquiorra's now pink cheeks. Ulquiorra widened his eyes. "See! I knew it! You actually love him!"

"You stupid moronic trash," Ulquiorra narrowed his eyes, glaring deadly at Zero.

"You poor lover!" Zero teased him while chuckling. Before Ulquiorra could speak, they both heard a knock on the locked door. Zero then ran to the door.

"I'm coming!" Zero opened the door and saw a girl with black hair that tied on both sides of her head; she was glaring down on him, almost deadly.

"Is Ulquiorra-san here?" she asked, Zero ran back to Ulquiorra without bothering to answer her question.

"Mister Ulquiorra! It's for you!" Ulquiorra closed his eyes for a second before he stood up and walked to the door.

"Wait here", is all that Ulquiorra said; Zero just nodded. Ulquiorra was now outside of the room, the door was closed behind him. He stared at the girl who was little bit shorter than him before spoke.

"Loly, what is it so important that you wanted to see me?"

"You've been assigned to attend a mission by Aizen-sama! Here's the information about it!" Loly passed him the file, Ulquiorra took the file and read it for awhile before he asked again.

"When the mission will start?"

"Now!" Ulquiorra nodded in understanding.

"That's all to inform you!" Loly then walked from him. After she vanished from his sight, Ulquiorra came back in to the room where Zero was waiting for him to returned, hands in pockets. Zero was sitting in the couch, then he looked to the opened door and saw Ulquiorra, he ran to him.

"So what is it about?"

"Aizen-sama had assigned me to go on a mission", Zero rolled his eyes.

"Another lame mission! I just couldn't stop thinking! Why in the world does Aizen always choose you to go on missions? Why not the others? You have mountains of paper work and big books of mission lists! Can't somebody else replace you?" Zero getting tired of this; he was certain that Aizen was just measuring how loyal Ulquiorra was to him.

"Why are you so concerned about me?"

"It's just not fair! After the work that you did for Aizen, after the missions that you accomplished for him, why does he still not give you any damn vacation, or any holidays to get yourself relaxed and away from work! It makes you look like a workaholic!" Ulquiorra just stared at him, telling him he must already know why.

"Yeah, yeah! I know! 'I live to follow and obey Aizen-sama!' Stupid!" Zero mimicked, he walked to the couch and took a slice of Black Forest. "But . . . before you go, why don't we finish the cake first, so you wouldn't feel hungry in the way, how's that?" he smirked in challenging, he knew that Ulquiorra wouldn't reject his offer since he liked the cake, oh so very much. Ulquiorra stood silently, he never thought that the boy would offer it to him again, he felt like his mind has been read easily by him. Since he really wanted to eat the cake, so he walked to the couch and took a slice of it.

'It wouldn't kill me to eat another of it, would it?' he told himself. Zero smiled in victory when saw Ulquiorra eat the cake. After the cake was finished, Ulquiorra sat up to go on a mission; he shoved his hands into his pocket. Zero called him when he was already opened the door to leave, Ulquiorra just turned to see him from his shoulder.

"Mister Ulquiorra! Visit me when you're back!"

"Why's that?"

"To have some cake!" Ulquiorra turned again and went out.

"We'll see about that", the door magically closed by itself, leaving Zero in his room, smirked doubtlessly.

'Sure! We'll see!' he looked at the empty plates, his smirked widened. The cake had 8 slices; Ulquiorra at 5 while Zero only ate 3!

It had been days since Ulquiorra left for the mission and Zero getting bored of waiting.

"God damn it! Mister Ulquiorra still hasn't come back!" he was lying on his bed, narrowing his eyes in annoyance, and then he sighed heavily. "And I forgot to ask him who will take care of me while his gone! Great! This is so great! Now I'm alone!" even he already stayed about 4 weeks now, he still didn't have any single clue about the Espada's room, and he only knew Ulquiorra's! But it was useless since Ulquiorra hadn't come back from the mission yet. So Zero just lying there hopelessly, he then sighed again and was about to close his eyes when he heard his door cracking opened.