Later in the evening Orihime had a knock on her door, expecting it to be Ichigo, worried about her, she opened it with a big fake smile to great him, but was widely surprised when it has not Ichigo at the door. The man at her door was wearing a weird striped outfit with sandals on. He also had a murky expression on his face that cleared into an appropriate fake smile to match her own.

"Urahara-san!" She said stunned. She was not expecting him of all people to be at her door this evening.

"Hello Inoue-san" He said in a cool cunning voice.

"What are you doing here?" She asked, he seemed a little different then usual.

"I came to see you of course Inoue-chan! Oh, and to ask a few questions" Urahara laughed and narrowed his eyes to her stomach. Seeing his eyes pointing towards her, she covered her stomach with her arms.

Orihime gulped in anxiety, she knew that he didn't believe her story from when she and Ichigo went to talk to him, but she didn't think he would confront her like this. How naïve of me, she thought.

"Come in, I'll make us some tea" Orihime faked a smile and signaled her hand to let him in.

Making some tea Orihime wondered if she should tell the truth or not. On one hand she would learn whatever Urahara knows about this type of situation, but on the other hand he could report her as a villain and she would be locked up for her relationship with Ulquiorra. But Urahara-san… everyone trusted him, and Ichigo did too. She trusted Ichigo so she had to take a leap of faith and trust in Urahara.

Returning to the room where Urahara sat peacefully at her table, she place down the lizard dongo tea down and sat across from him.

"Well I'll get right down to it then" Urahara stared right into Orihime's eyes.

"Fine, lets get it over with" She said with unwanted anxiety in her voice.

"Why does Ulquiorra warn you about the plans the Espada have and no one else, and betray Gin in the process" he asked directly, focusing his eyes on her own, showing her he was not fooling around.

"Because… well to be honest I don't know why myself… he acts so cold towards me, but… I suppose in some sort of sick kind of way he cares for me…" she attempted to explain.

"He cares about you?" Urahara asked with a sarcastic laugh. "And what the hell did you do to make him care for you"

Orihime clench her teeth in angry. So he already knows. "It was a mistake" she said turning her head away the man in front of her and tried her best not to cry.

"Confirm it" He said with no expression of emotion.

Orihime's tears started to swell up. She couldn't believe she was being treated like this.


The library was huge. It had an open roof, since there was no rain in this dome Aizen had created. There was also trees living and growing inside the huge open roof room, and lots of vines, it was like a sanctuary.

Of course there wasn't any romance books, but there was some other interesting books like dream understanding and meanings and historical myths of Hollows and death reapers.

She was colleting some material to read so she wouldn't die of boredom during her long stay in this wasteland. Orihime was surprised when Ulquiorra had brought her here the first time; it was just a week ago. She then took a peek over at him, he was like a solider, always on alert even in this place he claims is his home. She found it sad that he didn't have anywhere he felt safe. Sometimes though, when alone with her, he seemed to relax a bit.

Smiling she turned to him and told him she was done.

"Alright then, lets go woman" he said turning his back and walking towards the door that was their exit.

"Can't you call me by my name?" Orihime asked sick of him calling her woman. "Or do you call all women, woman"

He smirked slightly turning his head so she could no longer see his face. "Just you"


"Well Orihime-chan, what did you do to make him care for you" Urahara asked once again.

"I treated him the way he deserved, as a man not a monster" she said angrily that Urahara was treating her so inadequately.

"He is a monster, created by Aizen!" Urahara shouted, surprising Orihime and making her drop her tea.

She immedatly went to her bathroom and was glad the tea had cooled down and was not too hot. She then proceeded to wash her hands and change her pants quickly, and then returned back to Urahara

"I think you should leave now Urahara-san" Orihime told him clearly furious with him.

Urahara looked quite angry himself. "This is not over" he said as he stormed out of her apartment and shoved her door closed with a loud bang.

"That couldn't have gone any worse," she stated to herself.

Now I'm all upset. She couldn't believe how he treated her! Did he even know she was pregnant or was he just guessing? What is he going to do know?

Orihime got ready for bed and feel asleep with nightmares all night long. Ones with a beautiful demon finding out about her child and murdering Orihime and there child. She woke up in tears and furthermore took a very long time to calm down. When she did calm down she decided that she didn't want to go back to sleep and risk having nightmares again.

She made herself coffee and finished her homework till morning came. She then got changed and started to leave her apartment when her door was slammed open by Sado-kun.

"Sado-kun! What are you doing here?" Orihime asked. He really scared her; she should start locking her door.

"Is it true, the father of your baby is Ulquiorra? And that you are still with him, helping him with his plans for Gunma town?" Sado asked, as he was a little out of breath and his forehead was sweating, it looked as if he ran here.

"Of course not! I would never betray you guys, does that even sound like me!" Orihime cried out attempting to defend herself, forgetting to admit that first part was true. "Who told you such lies!"

"Old man Urahara and Rukia. The entire soul society believes you are allied with the Espada, and to be honest they kind of have all of us convinced!" He said furiously and betrayed.

"All of us? Even Ichigo!" She asked, not believing Ichigo would betray her. She trusted him the most in the world!

"No… everyone but him, for some reason he seems to believe you, I would too, but the evidence is too much to ignore, you have betrayed us haven't you!" Sado accused Orihime once again.

"What evidence!" She yelled back while wiping the tears away from her face.

"Your relationship with Ulquiorra and Grimmjow, the soul society said that you were more worried about Ulquiorra then our own forces when they rescued you from Aizen, the fact that everyone who does go to Gunma town comes back with no memories expect for you" he replied "and you are pregnanted with Ulquiorra's child, correct"

"That doesn't mean that I have betrayed you guys!" she cried out

"In my book you have" Sado said while turning and leaving.

Orihime fell down to the floor since her legs no longer had the power to stand up. What should I do? Figuring out one way she could fix this situation she lelt and headed out.


Arriving at Urahara's shop she found him sitting out front by himself. It seemed almost like he was waiting for her.

"That was a nasty way to get me to talk Urahara" Orihime said with anger in her voice.

"You're here because you're ready to talk, no? Well get on with it" Urahara said coldly.

"You've given me no choice, I would have told you this if you acted nicer," she rebutted. "It is true that me and Ulquiorra, we…" Orihime looked away finding herself unable to say the rest. "The child inside me is indeed Ulquiorra's but I have not betrayed you guys!"

"You Idiot!" Urahara yelled at her. "Do you have any idea what's inside of you? You should have come to me right away once you realized you were pregnant!"

"I don't understand" Orihime replied confused. Why did she need to go to Urahara, he wasn't a doctor or anything.

"It needs to be disposed of" he said glaring at her stomach

"How dare you! That's my decision!" Orihime yelled, "I'm sick of you! You turn my friends and the soul society against me, but you wont control me or my decisions!"

"I'm not giving you the offer of a choice," Urahara laughed lightly.

He then stood up and started to head in the direction of Orihime, with a sick look on his face. How could this be? She had always thought of him as a nice older man who helped her friends out greatly, but she was wrong, he was a sick man who wanted to kill her child.

Knowing that she couldn't fight him she decided to call for help and luckily Ichigo came out of Urahara's shop and ran towards her side.

"What's going on?" Ichigo ask, protective of Orihime. She felt a bit bad, like she sort of, totally manipulated him, but she had to protect herself.

Ichigo looked at the shopkeeper with sharp but friendly eyes, he believed that Urahara-san was a friend, and somewhat like a teacher to him, and he appreciated his help in getting Rukia back when she was imprisoned in the soul society.

"Ichigo, I believe you know about Orihime's predicament do you not?" Urahara ask in a sly voice that didn't sound like the normal happy-go-lucky-no-worries man both of them thought they had known.

"Ah, what!" Ichigo turned to Orihime seeking the truth, seeing in her eyes that he was telling the truth, Urahara knew her secret, Ichigo frowned and looked somewhat upset.

This confused Orihime, why would Ichigo be upset that Urahara knows about the child? "Ichigo, he's trying to turn everyone against me and abort the baby" she said pleadingly with her big eyes.

Ichigo looked stunned and turned to Urahara, who had then let his hat fall and showed his dark expression on his face.

"She is telling the truth, I want this child destroyed! It is something that should have never been created let alone be born" He said with annoyance in his voice, one could only guess that Ichigo was getting in his way.

"No, I will not let you hurt Orihime or her child, its here decision to make, leave her alone Urahara, I mean it" Ichigo said embittered.

Orihime smiled at Ichigo with pride, she knew she could count on him! A small feeling of undesirable emotion fluttered in her chest but she couldn't but her finger on what it was.

"You heard him Urahara-san, leave me alone, it's my decision to make and you can't change my mind" She said with confidence, since Ichigo was here she knew she wasn't alone.

She then saw Urahara slip his canes body out and a sword appeared. Orihime's eyes jumped then widened, and all of a sudden she felt very scared, and her confidence was gone. Ichigo was even more shock, he considered Urahara a friend, and couldn't understand why he didn't respect Orihime's decision.

"Stop this right now Urahara" Ichigo said outraged.

"Ichigo, don't you understand what's inside of her? Its half death reaper and half hollow, we have no idea about its abilities will be once it comes out, and if it turns out to have more powerful genes from its fathers then they could overpower the death reaper ones, making it have no knowledge of right from wrong and it may as well starts murdering people, what then?" He replied wrathfully.

Orihime knew that she was tearing up. She didn't want to believe that the baby inside of her was evil, and she didn't want to murder it. Somewhere in this conversation she realized she wanted this child, that it wasn't evil, and that she felt that it loved her, even though she tried to kill it. She couldn't control her tears, maybe it was because of her hormones and being pregnant but she would rather die than give her child up.

Orihime looked up into Ichigo's eyes who were searching her own for an answer. "I want this child" was all she said and Ichigo nodded his head and pulled out his own sword.


A/n: Ohh... Drama... I love your reviews, they make me want to update and please everyone who reads this story :)