Sorry for the late chapter – I got too sick to write and had an overall really busy weekend. I'll try to write 2 chapters this week to make up for it.
Disclaimer: I don't own Bleach
Orihime, Mine, Ulquiorra, and Grimmjow ended up going to the sushi shop afterall.
While they ate their sushi, Ulquiorra and Grimmjow continued to glare daggers at each other. Grimmjow's eyes were filled with blind rage. Ulquiorra's eyes were filled with reluctant confusion.
Mine glanced up at Orihime, who despite the tension, was enjoying herself while replacing the content of her sushi with strange things that Mine would rather not know about.
"So," Mine began, sitting back in her seat. Grimmjow stuffed another bite of sushi in his mouth, scowling at the table. "Who would like to tell me how you all know each other?"
Orihime smiled, waving her hand. "I can, Mine." She cleared her throat, opening her mouth to start what most likely would be a long-winded explanation.
"It all started the day that bastard was ranked higher than me!" Grimmjow interrupted. His blue eyes blazed with a raging fire. "I hate him!"
Ulquiorra closed his eyes. "The feeling is mutual, Trash."
Grimmjow stood, his legs bumping into the table. "What did you call me?"
Ulquiorra opened his eyes. The hostile look he gave Grimmjow was like a cat sizing up its opponent before attacking. Grimmjow looked like a cat, too, but he was more of a riled up, bothered one.
"You heard me," Ulquiorra said coolly.
"Would you both stop behaving like children?" Mine asked. She had expected a nice, fun double date. Not this.
"Yeah, really," Orihime added. "You two shouldn't be fighting when you could be friends."
Grimmjow made a choking, laughing sound. "Are you kidding me?" he laughed. "Me and the bastard? Friends?"
"It's incomprehensible." Ulquiorra told Mine.
"It's totally possible!" Mine said, frustrated. The brown haired girl stood up, grabbing Ulquiorra and Grimmjow. "Now, I want you two to go outside and make up! And behave!"
"No!" Grimmjow snapped defiantly.
While the couple argued, Orihime turned to Ulquiorra. Her eyebrows tuned down when she saw the anger in his green eyes.
"Ulquiorra," Orihime looked up at her friend with sad eyes. "For me, could you maybe talk to Grimmjow?"
Ulquiorra frowned. Was he responsible for the womans' sad expression.
Without answering Orihime, Ulquiorra grabbed Grimmjow by the collar of his shirt and slid him out of his seat.
Grimmjow struggled in Ulquiorra's grip all the way out of the door, all the while attracting attentions from the other customers in the shop.
Once they were outside Ulquiorra let go of Grimmjow's shirt.
"What was that for?" Grimmjow growled, standing away from the other man. Ulquiorra didn't answer.
"Listen, I don't like fighting with Mine. In fact we haven't had a single fight since 3 months ago. I don't want your influence to mess things up."
Ulquiorra gazed at the blue haired man for a moment, a question in his mind.
"What do you intend to do with the girl?" Ulquiorra finally asked the question that had lingered on his mind since he heard Grimmjow and Mine declare themselves boyfriend and girlfriend. Grimmjow seemed protective of the brunette, but was it really love that fueled his actions? Because it was Grimmjow, it didn't seem possible.
"What do you mean what am I going to do with her?" Grimmjow spit. "I'm going to be her boyfriend, protect her, love her. It might come as a surprise to you, Ulquiorra, but I'm not unable to feel love."
But I'm not unable to feel love… the words seemed to taunt him. Could he feel love? He was emptiness, so could he really overcome the blank whiteness inside of him?
Ulquiorra thought of Orihime. Why? He wasn't sure.
"What do you intend to do with the girl?" Grimmjow asked, glaring at the shorter male. "And how did you come back anyway? You should be dead."
Ulquiorra looked back to where Orihime waited for him. "I thought that would be apparent to you. She brought me back." Somewhere deep inside of Ulquiorra, he smiled. "As for what I will do with the onna, the answer is inconclusive."
M!M!
"So…. Ulquiorra and Grimmjow were enemies in Hueco Mundo and Ulquiorra was the fourth most powerful espada. And then a few years ago Orihime was brought to Hueco Mundo with Ulquiorra where he watched over her. And then her friends, who are shinigami, a quincy, and a human, rescued her, and during one of the battles Grimmjow – you were defeated. And then in another Ulquiorra was killed, and then Grimmjow, you came to the human world after regaining your strength after a year, and then just a few days ago Orihime brought Ulquiorra back with her… powers… what was it called-"
"Soten Kisshun."
"Right, Soten Kisshun… and… here we are."
"That's sounds about right," Orihime giggled.
Grimmjow and Ulquiorra remained quiet, but they weren't glaring at each other.
Mine looked at Grimmjow accusingly. "Why didn't you tell me you knew Orihime?"
"I forgot about her! It was only until I saw her that I actually put two and two together."
Mine shook her head. "Well, this day definitely didn't go as planned." The girl stood up. "Okay, I'm going home now. See you later, Orihime."
"Yeah, sure," Orihime smiled as her friend and Grimmjow left. "Today was interesting, huh, Ulquiorra?" Orihime smiled.
"Yes…" Ulquiorra glanced at Orihime. "Should we go as well?"
Orihime nodded, leading the way out of the sushi shop. They didn't plan on running into Mine and Grimmjow again, but just a little bit away from the sushi shop, Orihime and Ulquiorra saw the two share a kiss.
Okay, I'll end that there. Sorry again for missing my "deadline". I don't have an actual set in stone deadline. It's more like I have to produce a chapter within the four days revolving around Saturday and Sunday. So if I post a chapter on a Tuesday, I'm a day late. I'm posting this chapter today (Thusday) so I am very late. Sorry about that. Whenever I get to the editing part I always manage to talk myself out of doing it and fall asleep. Ha ha… sigh. See you next chapter (hopefully sometime this week!)
