Chapter Seven: Back and Forth

Warning: Fighting, Humor, romance, OCCness, drama, odd moments, hurt/comfort, supernatural, emo moments, sexual thoughts, none beta reader

Songs: Sixx: A.M. - Skin

Rating: PG-17


Cause they don't even know you
All they see is scars
They don't see the angel
Living in your heart

Let them find the real you
Buried deep within
Let them know with all you've got
That you are not your skin

Sixx: A.M. – Skin

"Thank You"

Some of the most basic words ever to be formed in any tongue of human language or spoken by any one some place in the world. Yet coming from these cold man, jade eyes cast down in a mix of a lost innocence and fear of showing any sort of emotion. These words meant more maybe to the young woman hearing them as if they where being said for the first time to her. Maybe they where in the truest meaning of a thank you meant.

Orihime could only maybe let the words softly quiver in her ears, his voice barely heard in the whisper of the low tone he often spoke in. This strange turn of his personality was also the shock all the more to the normally doll like man before her. Swallowing a moment to replay his voice and simple expression in her head as she studies him all the more. When had he ever looked so frail and lost? Never in her minds eye or memory back in those days of being a pawn to Aizen. Even in his fights to the last moments with Ichigo, Ulquiorra seemed to be nothing be pure strength in his own right.

"Your welcome…" she whispered, tasting the words on her lips as the licked them. Maybe she was trying to see if you could taste words and sounds.

Ulquiorra for the moment could only find himself looking out the window in questioning these feelings to the woman once more. Was it a side effect of being human once more? Had ever been human? His brows knit together for the moment in this thought of a past long forgotten. Personally he never recalled his hollow days like many of his kind did after Aizen he remade them using the Hogyoku. Yet if he had been hollow then by elimination he had to be human at some point, yes? Letting his chest fill in a moment of long sign as it pushed by his thoughts, he blinked as month opened wide and let in some large amounts of air.

Seeing the normally calm man just yawn out of the blue and watching the strange reaction she smiled a bit in a roll of eyes as he looked at her with more questions of his human body. "It's called a yawn Ulquiorra-san! We humans do it when we are tired or our body needs more air!"

"Yawning?" He asked, touching his chest and thinking more on this new body. Human bodies did so much on their own it was a bit peevish of him. "Humans are strange things, yet your body does so much on its own. You call this instinct yes?"

She blinked a moment in sitting down and smiled once more at the man. He was so lost in this world and now being human seemed to be throwing him for a loop. "Yah you could say that, I mean I can't tell you every thing our bodies do! Just for now let's just say our bodies do things on their own to keep us alive ok?

Knitting his dark brows a bit more in a short answer of the woman made the former Espada try to think of more to ask her but from the light gleam in her eyes he knew it was all he was getting out of the female for now. Still this would make for some research on his own time if he was stuck in this skin for the time being. If Ulquiorra was going to be human he may as well learn as much as he could about his own body. Yet he also knew one thing he would need in the first place outside of food.

"Woman."

"Yes?" Inoue looked up for a moment in his statement "Is something wrong?"

Huffing a bit in a wrinkle of his nose he knew one thing he needed "I need to bath."

This came out a blank to even more blunt statement as she tired to think of something and the answer came in his wrinkling nose. "Oh! Yes! Here let me show you how to use the shower and such!"

Raising an eye brow he frowned lightly as the lines pulled around his month "I know how to use a shower woman, we had them back home. Just I need a towel and some form of clothing outside of this robe. Unless you want me naked in your living room that is Woman?"

Oh now he was smirking at the woman as the image formed in her head and a pink fire bloomed on her cheeks. "NO! Um…."

"She is still so easy to rile up. That much of age has not changed some things at least in this world." He thought, smirking even lightly in seeing how her mind was going to a prey like state from his questions. "For a grown woman she still acts as a human teenager might…"

Inoue saw the light smirk and blinked in seeing Ulquiorra have a form of a smile! Yet his eyes gleamed like a cat watching a bird in seeing the strong cheek bones and light play on the man's face. If anything even now being human the man was drop dead handsome in some way. Maybe the curve of his jaw or the slight deep set of shadows made you know Ulquiorra was very male.

"I'll go to the shop and grab some sweats for you for now ok? Then in the morning we can go shopping for some cloths and few other things Ulquiorra-san. "Inoue shot back, crossing her arms a bit and thought of something. "Unless you think one of my skirts might look good on you? "

One eye brow shot up and blinked in having a come back from the woman. Seems she had grown a bit more of a back bone also in age. "These sweats sound find woman. I will go and take a shower while you do your shopping but you might want to get something for those wrinkles…"

Blinking a bit in the back and forth of these conversations, she glared at him as he walked away with that small smirk on his lips.

Ulquiorra-1 Hime-0

"He he just said I got wrinkles! The nerve of that damn man after I pulled him of the street in the rain, cook him food and now he is using my shower and he dares to say I have wrinkles!" Orihime huffed in her thoughts and hearing the shower turn on in moments. "Wait, when did Ulquiorra ever get a sense of humor?"

Tiling her head a moment as the golden hairs lightly fell a moment in thinking back to the odd turn of their talking. Tapping a slender finger to her lips for the moment in the thoughts of seeing him act so normal was a throw off for the healer. Yet this deep thoughts would have to wait, she did need to get him something to have on for now other then the robe.

It was a short trip down the street to a basic cloths store, thankfully sweats where in stock but Orihime tilted her head in the under where part but thought boxers seemed better and grab black pair and blue pair for her well guest for now. "Thankfully sweats seemed to fit all sizes but he is kinda thin built…hes built a lot like Ichigo in some ways." Recalling the man's bare chest and how the muscles moved under the pale skin made the woman blush. "Eppppp!"

Coming back, the sounds of the shower ending made her pull out the cloths from the wrapping "Ulquiorra-san, I got you some sweats for now and some boxers to wear till we go shopping in the morning for you."

Ulquiorra heard the woman and with out thinking just walked out into the living room, not even a towel around his waist to cover his full on glory. Inoue's month went dry to see the man walk with a inner grace most humans lacked and all the more comfortable in his own skin as if he knew the effect the former hollow might have on a pair of grey eyes widening.

"Woman, you have no clean towels for me so I will just put on this clothing. "Ulquiorra said, not even caring if he was naked for the moment yet seeing her open and close her mouth shut like a fish made him raise a eye brow and tilt his head. "Woman, is something the matter?"

"GET IN THE BATH ROOM AND PUT ON THE CLOTHS! A MAN SHOULD NOT BE NAKED IN FRONT OF WOMAN UNLESS MARRIED OR THEY ARE DATING!" Orihime screamed and blushed a beat red. "IN NOW!"

Taking a step back from her raised voice and the cloths being shoved into his arms and being shoved into the bathroom with the door slamming left the man blinking for a moment in the actions of the woman. "What is it with humans and their bodies? They act like it's a shame to be covered all the time. I will never understand these humans in this world maybe?"

Inoue blinked, walking over to turn on the cold water and wash her face. "That's the first time I've seen a naked man…."


Note: Naked emo boy! Poor Inoue, how am going to love torturing her with him like this! Well any who, now chapter Seven is a done with some humor a bit just to soften up the drama that is going to come and the next chapter with Ulquiorra really getting a taste of the human world. Yet maybe someone might stop by to check on our Hime maybe? But whoo? Also big thanks out too: Lolittawork-Libretto for her review! It got me into the mood to write and get this chapter out even if its short for my taste! More reviews are loved and feed back is a must!