I've just got told i look like L... by my own nii-sama!
now im even more the semi-L of the family. As if i weren't weird enough. Oh well, i like being weird. If i wasn't weird, i never would have thought of this...

anyway, enjoy. Sorry about the waiting for this one, but i had a ton of stuff to do... and then my muse died. (those who have read bleach manga chapter 353 will know) and i was kinda bummed out for a bit. It was goodbye to inspiration and hello to true despair. Then about halfway through this one i got creative depression.

It was Not pretty - i couldn't write anything and thought everything i did write was trash in a very bad ulqui style moment and got very tempted to quit writing all together... and got very depressed because i couldn't write.

But then my absolutely amazing beta-reader came to my rescue! Seriously--- she rocks. And my nii-sama! They told me not to quit and cheered me up- so here i am again. Still here, still updating, and having fun while doing so. So here's my next instalment.

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9 - The origin of uLquiorra

L soon found himself in a building much like the one he had built for the investigation team. It was funny how he could still remember after all this time - he had Aizen to thank for that.

"Welcome to Las Noches, L."

This new place was huge. Bigger than it looked from the outside anyway, but it definitely seemed larger from inside. L thought so anyway. Maybe it was designed like that?

L was busy looking all around him and taking all of this in, the vastness of it all. And so much whiteness. He was tempted to ask if he could paint it. He secretly thought of the amusement he could get out of throwing many different colours all over those pale walls. Well, anyone would – if they could get away with it. L was sure that many an artist would simply adore this as a blank canvas.

He was currently following Aizen down the corridors, along with the mass crowd of hollows that had decided to come. They were walking some distance behind them. Before he knew it they were both in another room entirely and the mass crowd was elsewhere, following the second shinigami that had come along with Sousuke. So as far as L knew it was just him following Sousuke and Ichimaru.

"L, I need you to do something for me."

"Huh?"

"Remain calm."

"What?"

Four walls suddenly closed around him and L suddenly found himself encased within a glass box. This scared him. And thus, his claustrophobic side started to kick in. Snarling and hissing, he tried to escape but the box held him fast. His heart was thudding frantically, his head shaking every time he headbutted the glass. It held firm.

No escape now.

What was going on? Was he going to kill him? L didn't know. The only thing he knew was that he had to get out. Someone was calling out to him.

"L... L..."

It was Sousuke. But L couldn't hear him.

"Calm down L."

Calm down? How could he possibly calm down. He couldn't breathe. Panic filled him. He didn't like being shut in like this. And now his head was pounding. Like his very skull was being wrenched from his head. He didn't like this. He didn't like this at all.

He had to escape.

Still hissing and growling he made an attempt to break the glass that held him in. What was Aizen thinking? Better yet, what was he planning to do with L?

His body was hurting all over now, and he couldn't see. Either he had gone blind somehow or there was some fog clouding his vision. L suspected the latter.

What was going on? There was just this searing unbearable pain. He felt nothing but pain in his entire body.

And then the glass shattered.

And L just stood there in his usual hunched position, human again for the first time in the many years that he had first met Sousuke Aizen, who was now smiling softly at him.

"Would you like some painkillers?"

L just nodded.

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Aww, poor L-kun...

Haha, did anyone notice the spelling of the title? Yeah, i did that on purpose too. Subtle humour i guess... we cant have Ulquiorra without L now can we? It would just be uquiorra...

Oh, and if my BR and/or my nii-sama is reading this - Thankyou for helping me through my creative depression! You saved the project(s) and told me not to quit so ~thankyou thankyou thankyou~ etc etc. and so on...

and nii-sama – i already told you how amazingly genius you are. And of your awesomeness for helping me.

oh and to those really nice readers who reviewed me – thankyou for those reviews too!

Appreciating you all and hoping to update soon,

TheDrunkenWerewolf