Orihime doesn't talk. Not to Tatski, not Ichigo, not Sado, not Ishida, she didn't talk to anyone. Tatski is the only one who knows why. Tatski asked the students their class if anyone knew where Ulquiorra lived, but no one except those with the ability to see spirits even knew there was an Ulquiorra in their class.

Tatski had liked Grimmjow, so she had taken the news of his death hard. However Orihime seemed to take it even harder. Tatski couldn't really blame her. Orihime always wanted to be able to help her friends when they needed it. She couldn't help them. She watched as the battle took the lives of her new found friend Grimmjow and someone she had learned to care for. She had lost Ulquiorra three times.

In the beginning Tatski had been mad at Orihime. Tatski knew what kind of powers Orihime had, and she blamed her for not healing them. Or at least Grimmjow. Sometime later Tatski had time to think about that argument and was angrier then before. She was angry at herself though, because she had been so selfish. Orihime was going through the same thing and she had been so evil to forget that.

School seemed to fly by now without anyone to talk to. She had been talkative in the beginning, but in the end she ended up like Orihime, silent. She seemed to blend into the background with no one ever sparing her a second glance, save for Orihime. Ichigo had checked to see if they were all right a few times, but eventually even that stopped. Tatski and Orihime wanted to just disappear, and to the others, they did.

/\/\/\/\

Orihime and Tatski, like clockwork, walked home in silence. Orihime would get home and most likely sleep while Tatski was going to go to a secretive grave. There had been no body to bury, but why forget him. After splitting away from Orihime she walked to the graveyard, and through that to the forest. And after 30 minutes of walking came to a stop in front of a dead tree.

There, under a rock, was a picture of herself and Grimmjow. She was a person that no one ever wanted to see cry, Tatski was a person of strength. She sat there for hours on weekends just paying. Today was a bit different however.

"Hey girl."

Tatski's eyes opened slowly, "Who's there?"

The voice grew angry, "Tsk, who's there? It's me Grimmjow!"

She turned to face him. She stared at him, "It's really...you..."

Grimmjow just smiled.

/\/\/\/\

Orihime waked home, dragging her feet. She didn't like bin alone, but she didn't like being asked 'what was wrong' every time someone would talk to her. So in the end she just distanced herself from everyone, even Tatski to a degree. She was alone like always when he first spoke. She hadn't been talked to for so long it made her jump,

"Woman, is this how you intend to spend the rest of your life? Like trash?"

She turned around with hate in her eyes, which melted the instant she saw him. He didn't get to say anything else before she hurled herself at him. He caught her and let out a little gasp when she squeezed. It took a few minutes to steady herself, but when she did he spoke again,

"Woman, why such a ridiculous reaction to seeing me?", Ulquiorra picked her up and made his way towards her home.

"I-I-I saw you die!", Orihime rested her head on his shoulder.

"What you saw was a Arrancar die. And an Arrancar is a form of a hollow. So tell me, where do hollows go when killed by a Zanpakutō?"

It dawned on her, "Hollows go to the-"

He finished the sentence, "Soul Society."

She was upset with him, "Why didn't you tell me! Why didn't you come?"

He just looked at her until she realized how dumb those questions were. She silently cursed herself for wasting his time, however much he had, with dumb questions.

"Sorry."

Her eyes widened, "What for?"

He looked into her eyes, "For allowing you to become...this." he motioned to her.

She didn't speak for the rest of the trip to her home. She felt comfortable just running her lips along his jawline. Every now and then she would sneak a kiss onto his cheek, which his eyes would widen a bit.

She was snapped out of her trance when she heard her door shut. He put er on the couch and sat down opposite of her.

"So, what have you been doing?", she said taking her eyes off of his to look at his odd clothing.

"I died by Aizen's odd new Zanpakutō and went to Soul Society. Having the Ability of a shinigami Grimmjow and myself were given an opportunity by Captain Yamamoto."

"Captain Yamamoto?", she asked.

"Woman, are you blind?"

She thew him a confused look, "No why?"

Ulquiorra took a few moments before standing and motioning to the white Haori he wore.

Her eyes widened to comical standards, "That's a Captain's-"

Again he interrupted her, "Yes, I am a captain. I took over the position of squad 5"

"If you are a captain then why do you look so, well for you anyways, mad?"

"Because," he began, "It seems that even though Aizen has that new Zanpakutō he was able to keep his original ability. So it would seem that the Aizen that I killed was an illusion."

"So what does Aizen want?"

"I do not know, Woman"

She wanted to ask him so much more, but he said he d to go. She was distraught by this and asked if she could come with him. He was astounded that she would ask something so...odd.

When he asked why she had explained that she had no reason to live without him. That only seemed to confuse him even more. So she put it in a way so that he would take her,

"If I stay here", she took a breath, "Aizen might come for me."

"Fine, I'll take you with me."

/\/\/\/\

When Ulquiorra got to the gate to Soul Society he was met with an interesting site.

"Grimmjow, What are you doing?"

"Why Captain Schiffer, I am simply doing what you seem to be doing.", Grimmjow said shifting Tatski to his other shoulder.

Ulquiorra opened the gate and walked through, followed by his lieutenant Grimmjow. Unknown to them however was that there was a man in the distance with a small smile on his lips watching them leave.

"This might be a little more interesting. See ya soon, Inoue-san."