A week passed and all was well. Orihime was happily cooking for her extended family, or as her brother said babysitters from hell. He was joking of course and she laughed gaily after he told her.
The 'babysitters' were not pleased especially the twins. They expressed this displeasure by giving Sora an extreme makeover while he was asleep.
Now Sora wasn't pleased. Everyone else snickered at his expense. Sora made one manly girl given some eyebrow plucking. Even granny laughed, she couldn't see it but she had one of her premonitions and from her mind's eye she saw.
It didn't bode well for the twins if their screaming was any indication.
A month passed and life settled, boring and without excitement. It was perfect. Orihime was settling in their new home. Sora had to move them all to a new country, with advice from Oracle he moved them all. It was for the best, too much concentrated energy and they'll start attracting spirits like flies and honey. Then it'll be all maggots and rotten flesh soon enough.
One day, Orihime went shopping again. She was in the middle of her medical studies; she found out that she was rather good at it and that if she tried she could be a nurse or even a doctor. When she was studying she realized that they were out of chips, and then found the bugs hiding in the lower part of the cabinet. Pretty soon she had a shopping list that grew from one page to several.
Sora was out on his job and the other extended members of the group were all getting a job as well. Orihime didn't want them to get a job but they felt obligated to assist with the monetary means.
As she walked through the lanes, she found she had no clue where to find the ammonia. English was hard to read, and even though she had a working knowledge of it reading and speaking it were two entirely different things. At least with fruit she knew the difference.
She walked up to one of the employees. "Excuse me." She asked in politely.
The man turned around. The first thing she noticed was his eyes, their brilliant green orbs captivated her. She just stared at him, stared at his green eyes. For some reason, she knew him from before. But where?
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A month earlier in Hueco Mundo and nothing has really changed. Except for the laughter of a happy child, nothing has really changed at all. Really.
Except for the time Tousen became a walking graffiti board and no one told him for a few days, or when Gin woke up with fox ears glued to his head. Grimmjow found catnip in his room and he was stoned for days. Nnoitra found himself in a dress while Halibel couldn't find any clothes with the turned up collar. Even Aizen got pranked, he couldn't find any of his hair gel. The ninth Espada found fish in his tube while Szayel woke up with white hair; his screams could be heard all over Los Noches.
Stark escaped unscathed if you call unscathed by drinking caffeine laced tea. He couldn't stop twitching for days. Barrigan wasn't pranked at all and neither was Zommari. Yammi was also prank free for he made the food and if he were pissed off, everyone will need to stock up on Pepto Bismol. Ulquiorra got all his clothes turned pink, all of his clothes even his back up ones. He was forced to wear clothes that were two sizes too big. It looked like he got chibified the way his clothes dragged on the ground.
It was hard to tell who the perpetrator of these pranks was. Most would say it was Gin but they would have to admit that super gluing fox ears to ones scalp was a really stupid way of redirecting blame. Gin still had two bald spots where the fox ears use to be.
Besides the increase of pranks, Hueco Mundo was duller than usual.
"What the hell is this?" Ulquiorra glowered at Szayel and the cloth he held in his hands.
"Uniform." Szayel had one of his evil grins. "Aizen's orders you know."
It was strange, Aizen gave him an order to 'play human' for a day. Truthfully he wanted to spend more time with his son and to search for Orihime. He had already searched all of South America and was working his way up.
"This uniform is different from what I am acquainted with." Ulquiorra stretched the cloth between his fingers.
"Hmmm…yes and the people have English accents." Szayel pulled a cord that moved a curtain. "And now you have an all expense paid trip to the United Kingdom!"
Ulquiorra looked at Szayel blankly for several long seconds. "You're recording this aren't you?"
Szayel whipped out a recorder. "Yep."
"The only reason you're still alive is because Trea likes you. If he didn't you would be a bloody smear on this pristine wall."
Szayel shrugged brushing aside the threat.
"On that note, where did you get arrancar to dance like that?" Ulquiorra indicated to the show girls. "Drugged I presume?"
"Nope, I bribed them. If they do this, I won't experiment on them."
Ulquiorra looked at Szayel blankly. "Are you actually going to uphold your end of the deal?"
Szayel laughed, shaking his head. "Of course not. They are interesting specimen and besides they are inferior arrancar with only a few attributes that are worth experimenting on."
"What's with the camera?" Ulquiorra indicated to the device.
"A hobby." Szayel said proudly. "Blackmail."
Ulquiorra left the room with his clothes and gigai. A few hours later he arrived in the United Kingdom and did as Aizen ordered him to do. Get a job at a grocery market. It was easy but annoying. So many humans, so many complaints it made him want to rip them from end to end.
Ulquiorra swore to himself that the next person to ask him for help was going to find themselves burned to a crisp.
"Excuse me." Ulquiorra turned around, quite ready to cero the woman. But whatever he was going to do was stopped, as he fully saw who was standing before him.
His lips parted but no words came out.
"You…." Orihime stared at the store clerk. "I know you."
Ulquiorra froze, eye twitching. His mouth felt dry, he felt so weak just standing there looking at her. What could he say?
"Orihime." He said, his voice so soft. His chest felt pained, and for all his powers and abilities he found he was unable to speak louder.
"You're that clown." Ulquiorra felt like swearing, of all the things she remembered it was the fact he looked like a clown. "That emo clown." God dammit.
Orihime approached him, eyes wide and searching. Ulquiorra saw in her eyes innocence untainted by her past experience or by his actions towards her. She was naïve again. Ulquiorra wondered if she still had her strong resolve. Was it her experiences that made her the woman he fell in love with, or was it something she had all along?
"I'm Inoue Orihime….uh..wait….English it is Orihime Inoue." She bowed. "What's your name?"
"Ulquiorra Sciffer." Ulquiorra said in japanese.
Orihime perked up. "I'm from Japan, just here with my brother. Your Japanese is really good for a foreigner."
Ulquiorra held up a hand to stop Orihime before she started to jabber nonsense. "Do you know who I am?"
Orihime looked at his name tag. "A worker at the Wall-wall?"
"No." He tripped the tag off before grabbing her arm. She struggled of course, he picked her up and tossed her over his shoulder.
It was like old times with less screaming of course.
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Sora licked his ice cream as his cronies walked with him back to the apartment. It was quite easy to figure out that arrancar and jobs do not mix. Especially if only a few had gigai. The rest lounged around the house or made frequent trips to Hueco Mundo.
"Godot why is it tha-" The words died in his mouth as he stared at the scene before him. It was Orihime and she was being carried away. Oh hell no, not again. He leapt out of his gigai, flying right into the gargunta. That was it, he was going to nail his sister into the freaking ground just to keep her here.
Godot stared as he watched his lord vanish before his eyes. He too had noticed the gargunta but he had no idea why his lord was so worried. He sighed, picking the ice cream out of his hair. The gigai had crashed onto the ground once the spirit left the device.
He sighed before walking back to the apartment. His King was powerful enough to get himself out of trouble.
When he returned to the apartment, he got a face full of soup as Oracle chastised him severely for letting Sora go.
"You baboon!" Snapped the Oracle, shaking her cane at him. "Did you not listen to me? If he were to chase after his sister in revenge, he will be doomed."
"I didn't think your cryptic shit were worth anything really." Godot whipped the soup off his face. "You're not always right."
"Well this time I am." She smacked him squarely on the shin. "We have to find him and bring him back."
"Tch, that's more trouble than its worth." Godot rolled his eyes. "Remember the last time we tried to do something for his own good?"
They all remembered. "Besides maybe this time he won't get into deep shit." Said one, while his twin sniggered. "Yeah right, and the sun doesn't set in the west."
It was official; they were the worst babysitters ever.
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Trea giggled to himself as he prepared for his latest prank. No one would ever suspect him. And he was the greatest which explained why he was hiding in a closet. Uncle Gin tought him all he could but Trea forgot one cardinal rule. Do not prank the master or else the master will very pissed off.
"I am great." Trea whispered to himself in triumph. "Wait till mom hears about this."
"Here about what?" Asked a cross voice.
Trea looked up to see Gin. He gulped.
The bald spots on Gin's head weren't that noticeable not like his tail. It was still there, glued firmly with industrial super glue.
Gin grabbed Trea's ear, yanking it. "Now you're gonna help me get rid of it or else."
Trea gulped again. Okay, maybe the tail thing was going a bit too far. He opened his mouth to scream for his dad but clamped it shut when Gin glared at him.
"If one peep out of your mouth is along the sounds of 'daddy' save your breath." Gin yanked Trea's ear again for good measure. "He's at a mission so no one is going to save you now."
Trea gulped again and prayed to any god out there not to have his punishment be so humiliating that he'll be scared for life.
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A.N: Soooo…what do you guys think and we are going to have a major fight in the next chapter.
