Chapter Four
Arturo Plateado's P.O.V
I have no idea what Orihime was trying to say about my mother, but I vowed to listen to her in my head. I promised myself that I would do all I could to make my mother's second life growing up as happy as possible- for the both of us. It was the least I could do after Chastity-Chan walked away with the person she was afraid of the most, to keep us and Patience-Sama safe. She really was the person Patience-Sama described her to be.
I stared at my new "sister" sleeping in my arms, I wouldn't tell her who she really was, but all she needed to know what that she was my sister. I fingered the barrette that Orihime had given her, and wondered what she meant.
Who is Lily? I thought, and placed Nelliel on the bed and stared at Ulquiorra who was looking out the window. He didn't portray anything since they left, not anger, nor sadness- just monotone. I didn't dare speak to him; for fear that he may break down. But he spoke to me.
"Put the flowers pin by the light, and pour water on it. I know she gave you her hairpin for a reason; I'm just trying to figure out for what." He said to me, and I did as he told me. I took bottled water from the mini fridge and sprinkled the pin that was balancing on a pot's edge. The flower's end of the pin fell off as soon as the water evaporated into it, and it sunk into the dirt of the pot. Pink and green lights blinked like strobes in and little green sprouts began to peek out. Within minutes, there were three large buds all different flowers. They were all different colors too, blue, yellow, and pink.
"What is this? This is supposed to help her?" I muttered, angry at Orihime- but only for a millisecond. I sighed and held my head looking at Ulquiorra in my peripheral vision. "That was a bust." I said and looked around.
"Patience-Sama. What do we do!" I asked, and he turned his head from facing the window and looked at the buds.
"Wait. We wait for a flower to bloom, because if rushed- it doesn't come out as beautiful as it would've been if the person raising it had taken their time. Nobody gets a second chance to raise the same flower again." I stared bewildered at this man and nodded. He knew this was the circumstance for Nelliel. But I got a second chance to help Mom. I glanced at the small girl stirring in the bed.
Nelliel sat up straight and yawned. Then when thought kicked it, she frantically glanced around the room. "Hime-Chan? Where's Onee-Chan, Aniki?" she looked at me then Ulquiorra. Tsubaki was gone, now just a black camellia. I walked over to the crying Nelliel and put the camellia in her hand. I picked her up and walked her over to the blooming lilies. She leaned over and placed the black flower in the pot, and it grew a root, connecting to the other flowers. I realized which flowers they were, and the names of the flowers connected to the names of the fairies whose lives sprouted from them. "Lily, Ayame(Iris), and Tsubaki(Camellia)." I stared at the pink flower. It didn't have a name, so I was wondering what it was. It looked like a rose, but had more petals than that of a chrysanthemum.
"What kind of flower is this?" I asked Patience.
"It isn't a flower." He muttered then continued to look out the window.
Is he retarded? I wondered and stared at the thing in the pot. "You're kidding me right? This thing here has petals, and it grows in a pot. I'm pretty sure this is a flower, you baka (stupid)." I said pointing to the rare flower.
"It isn't a flower, it's a person." he looked at Nelliel. "Right?"
Nelliel nodded. "But that's the dumbest thing you've said so far Onii-Tan.
"This is Zabimaru, Turo-Sama. The Pranksters, and Onee-Chan's friends."
I stared at the little girl weirdly. She touched the petals of the closed flower. "Roar, Zabimaru." She whispered to it.
At first nothing happened. Then the flower disintegrated. I looked around to see if something was floating, but there was just ash. "Behind ya fool."
We all turned to see a woman and a child sitting on the bed. The child had legs but stood on a white serpentine bottom. The woman wore a green fur leotard and a chain wrapped around her hips that was connected to the little boy. "Zabimaru at chur service." The woman said. "Hey Hebi, do ya see Hime?"
"Nooppe." He chuckled and looked around. "Nah…don't see her. So who summoned us?"
"Wait? Aren't you Renji's pet?" Ulquiorra asked.
Saru crossed her arms, "Well yeah, but we like Hime and help her out sometimes. Ya know like a favor!"
"Well, whatever." I muttered and looked at the other flowers. "So, what about these other ones?"
"Reject, you gotta say I reject and they'll come up." Hebi smiled and slithered over to Nelliel patting the small girl on the head.
"No need, we're awake. You're very loud ya know Zabimaru!" Tsubaki was sitting on the edge of the window sill, legs crossed and scratching his hair. "Damn, you guys are very annoying. HEY LILY, AYAME! Stop hiding, they ain't gone kill ya."
"Really now?" a fairy girl flew up from the window and looked around. She saluted us and giggled. "It's alright Ayame." Another girl, covered in an egg shape shell, smiled at us, her hands wrapped in her sleeves.
"This is just wonderful." I muttered, "Three fairies, a monkey and a snake are supposed to save my Virtue from my Sin. This is just marvelous." I threw my hands up in the air and was smacked into the wall by a white image. When I got a clear look, it was Hebi's tail.
"Pansy." He laughed, arms crossed mockingly. "This is like an adventure for us! Envy ain't much fun cuz he's always whining about something. This will be fun, cuz seriously; it's Grimmjow we're up against!"
"Damn you all of ya!" I threw my arms up in the air and growled. "I'm out. You can all figure this out by yourself!" I looked back at Nelliel, she was pouting and blinking hard, as if holding back tears.
"So you're just going to give up on us?" Ulquiorra sighed. "I thought more of someone like you. Of someone that was born an Arrancar." I lifted and eyebrow.
"A what?"
"Never mind that now." Ulquiorra opened the window and lifted his leg over the rail, "Let's give Orihime time to understand, if that time doesn't come we go save her."
Saru giggled, "Wait so it's party time?"
"Precisely." Ulquiorra jumped out the window and followed the fairies, and Zabimaru. Nelliel couldn't reach the window sill, so I lifted her up. She squealed and fell on Hebi's tail.
"What have I done?" I face palmed.
Normal P.O.V
Yourichi stared at the bottles on the table before her. She had a tequila cup in her hand, and Nnoitra across from her. His face was blush and he looked pretty dizzy. He slammed his fifth bottle among the other empty ones. It was only three in the afternoon and he was pretty drunk. Yoruichi leaned back onto the counter and swiveled her bottom on the bar stool. She pointed to the bandanna that covered Nnoitra's eyes.
"What's behind there?" she asked
"My eye." He giggled like a high school freshman girl.
"No shit Sherlock." Yoruichi sat up and leaned toward Nnoitra. He thought she was going to kiss him, so he leaned forward too. But she only was going to take off the bandanna. When she did, Yoruichi hollered and threw the cloth back to the human. "NASTY!" she shivered.
"Or where my eye used to be." He smiled mocking her disturbed look.
"That wasn't very nice." The Virtue sniffled.
"Fine, I'll pay for a drink this time."
"You were going to anyway." She smiled, and held his wallet in her hand. "You dropped it."
"Well, some kind of Humility you are."
"I didn't say I was nice. That's Kindness's job."
"Not cool." He groaned and snatched the wallet from the girl's hand
Yoruichi looked around and pointed. "Isn't that Toshiro and Uryuu?"
Nnoitra shrugged. "You know them not me." He pointed out and she got off the stool and took him by the hand. He stared at their hands clasped together and pulled away. Humility stopped and looked back at the human palming the hand. She raised an eyebrow as he nervously looked around.
"Sorry, keep walking." He looked up at her and nodded. She continued, but when she got to the entrance, the people she was looking for, had vanished.
"Let's go find Shirosaki and what's-his-name."
"Kay kay!" Nnoitra took one last look around and followed her out the door.
Yoruichi stood outside, hands on her hips. Nnoitra walked through the door and then looked around. He caught the Virtue's eye and nervously looked away. This made the woman wonder.
"What's got you so ansty?"
Nnoitra fidgeted and shook his head. "Nutthin." He muttered.
The Virtue smacked him in the back of his head. "Hai! What wazzat for?" he growled, grabbing his head.
"Don't tell me nothing and them looked all sad."
"I'll do what I want you old lady!" he hollered back.
"Don't be mad because your ugly self can't get none a dis!" she shook her body.
"I don't want wrinkly pussy." Nnoitra crossed his arms and turned away.
"Why you-"
"HEY HUMILITY! We've been looking all around for ya." She turned to see a pale white haired boy.
"Eww it's Shirosaki the terrible."
"I prefer the great but the terrible is fine." Hichigo ran a hand through his har. "Wanna fuck."
"Yah nasteh liddle boyah!" Yoruichi ran a hand swiftly across his face. Hichigo moved back. He stared at his nose and blood burst from his face.
"MAH FACE. Yah wretched woman!"
"Now you've got a battle scar. Don't underestimate me. You're to weak for that." The Virtue flipped her hair.
"Hag." Nnoitra muttered then looked away. "Hey you're bloc-" Chad towered the adult. "-king my sun." the black haired man finished,
"Gomen." Chad moved away and put his thumbs up. "Hey there Miss Yoruichi."
"Hey kid." Humility saluted
"What do we do now?" Hichigo asked
"I dunno, I'm hungry." Nnoitra complained
"Eat dick." She stuck her tongue out
"Eewah." Nnoitra mocked "I like pusseh."
"That's not what I heard." Hichigo laughed
"What the fuck izzat supposed tah mean?" the human asked
"You are gay." Chad said
Yoruichi hissed and stepped in the middle of the three men. "Stop it. Now."she said and pointed over behind them. "Look."
They all stared, "Isn't that Grimmjow- holding hands with a girl? Damn she's sexy. He got himself a nice piece of ass."
CONK! Yoruichi held her fist above Nnoitra's head. "That piece of ass is my friend. And she has no reason to be with him- without her humans."
"That's Chastity." It finally hit Hichigo
"And the light bulb pops." The girl threw her hands in the air.
"Hey!"
"Whatever, let's go back to the hotel. Leave them be for now- we need to find out what's going on first." She took the Hichigo and Nnoitra by the hand and pulled them in the direction they had come from.
"So what you're saying is that my best friend is with the person she hates the most, claiming she loves him?" Yachiru stared at Toshiro and his Sin partner Uyruu.
Uryuu pushed his glasses up, "I don't like Grimmjow and when I tell you that she seemed really uncomfortable with him- I'm not lying. I know Orihime doesn't deserve this."
"Deep words coming out of someone like you." Toshiro snickered.
Karin sat next to Sojiro staring at him. "This is nice." He looked up and nodded curtly before turning back to stare at the wall beside them. She sighed and put her hands on her thighs, staring at her sneakers. She felt a weight on her head, and saw that Sojiro had put a hand her on her red cap clad hat.
"They'll get over it. I'm a bit surprised to, but what can you do? They like us and we have to be on our best behavior."
"Whatever you say Sojiro-Sempai." She muttered and pushed his hand off her head. He made a hmmph noise and turned away.
"HEYY GET BACK HERE!" a roar came through the halls of the hotel, and a big jumble of people ran past the door. Yachiru immediately became distracted by the commotion and ran to become involved. She giggled and pulled the short Toshiro along. Uyruu leaned back onto the couch and put his glasses on the table in front of the couch. Karin groaned and pulled her cap off.
"Wake up ya idiot!" she screamed and threw the hat swiftly at the Sin's face. "Damn idiot. Thank god I don't have a brother." She crossed her arms and looked at Sojiro. He had his eyebrow lifted in question. "What?"
"You shouldn't be so sure about whether you have a brother or not. You might jinx it." He pointed to the door, Karin turned and saw a redhead leaning against the doorway.
Ichigo waved and snickered. "Hiyah sis." Karin's eye bulged and she screamed.
"G-g-g-GHOST!" she hollered and stood up, and body slammed into Ichigo.
"HEY! I'm not up for a fight. I don't hit girls, unless you're Rangiku."
"I CAN HEAR YOU STRAWBERRY!" Masumoto yelled from the room across the hall- the kitchen.
"Fat bitch." He muttered and smiled at Karin. "How's the old man. I hope he's not hitting you with surprise attacks the same way he used to do me."
"You the fuck are you?" Karin screamed and smacked Ichigo. "I know damn well you ain't my brotha. He died twenty years ago- way before I was born."
"I'm a Sin now Karin. Things happen." Ichigo said shrugging a whole story off and walking out of the room. Leaving Karin tearing up and Sojiro placing his hand on her shoulder.
"Aniki's alive." She said and burst into tears.
"Come on Karin. Let's go see what's going on."
Karin dried her eyes and nodded turning from the older man to the door. Standing there was the oldest of the Shibas. "Hey, you're missing out on all the fun! Come on now!" Kaien hollered and pulled Karin along. She groaned, and kicked the air.
"Don't just grab me like that!" she hollered, suddenly her leg connected with something solid. That something solid was a person running by.
"Damn you hit him hard." Kaien laughed his hands on his hips staring at his younger brother on the floor.
"Summimasen." Karen muttered and ran out of the room, in the direction Ichigo had gone.
Grimmjow's P.O.V
I'm so lucky. It's not even funny, it was so easy to just take Orihime from Ulquiorra. I mean, that Virtue ain't much to look at compared to me. Now I sound like Pride.
"Are you alright?" Orihime stared at my funnily. I hadn't noticed that I was grinning until she'd pointed it out. We were about four blocks away from the hotel, and we had gone on our first date. I could already tell Orihime was warming up to me. I mean, how could you not? I couldn't wait to get my mouth on hers. She smirked at me when I stopped smiling.
"Ahem." I cleaned my throat. "I'm perfectly fine babe."
Loving the blush that coursed her face when I called her that, I wrapped my hand around her wrist and pulled her forward to a looking window. Inside it was a moving star, it was smiling at us, basically moving through the window to tell a short tale. The red head's face lit up in joy and I let her go. As soon as I did, her hands went straight to the window pane. I shoved my hands into the pockets, and shook my head.
"So, you wanna go b-"
"HIME!" I turned to see that pesky Habi and Sabu running up to meet up with us. I turned to see Orihime smiling widely.
"Wahoo! It's you guys!" she ran past me up to them, already I was forgotten. I ran a hand through my teal hair and sighed greatly.