CHAPTER 9: UNFORGETABLE DREAM

He stared strangely at her and come closer.

"Also there's one more thing that I want to do."

His words made her curious.

"What's it?" Orihime asked him in her soft voice, lost in his gaze.

Without breaking eye contact, he placed a hand behind her head, slipping his fingers through her hair and brought his lips to hers.

Orihime took a few seconds for the shock to recur her mind. She realized that Ulquiorra was actually giving her a kiss.

While amusement filled in Ulquiorra as he watched her beautiful eyes widen and then flutter closed in bliss. Her soft lips pressed against his gently, almost cautiously.

And then they pulled away, Orihime's cheeks were pink slightly and her breath came out in small gasps.

She murmured shyly, but no word was coming out, blushing as she stared at him. She just had her first kiss. And it felt good. She didn't know that Ulquiorra was a good kisser.

She touched his cheeks lightly with her hands. And they kissed again. His lips pressed against hers with more force.

He savored the warm and soft feel of her lips under his, savored the sweet scent of her skin, and when she caught sight of his burning lidded gaze as they kissed, he savored the sound of her moaning gently in his mouth.

He pulled apart for air as for the time passing while they kissed seemed for hours, and gazed at her hesitantly, both their chests heaving lightly.

"I should stop here. I promised that I'll bring you home intact. If I continue, I'm afraid that I would eat all of you here and now."

Ulquiorra wanted to get away but he couldn't. He was intoxicated with her.

Their bare chests were still panting. Ulquiorra leaned forward and kissed the woman again.

But this time the kiss was shorter as he leaned downward and kissed her bare chest in the place where his hole used to be.

"Ulquiorra!!" Orihime couldn't be help but moaned out his name.

As Ulquiorra looked at her with an amusing look in his eyes, he couldn't help but smirk, a lazy smirk. He seemed to like it.

"I just made a mark on you. So just remember that you are mine. And don't forget ----"

Suddenly at that time, she couldn't hear anything of what Ulquiorra said at the end. She asked,

"Don't forget what?"

Her vision started to blur and she couldn't see Ulquiorra's figure in front of her anymore.

"Ulquiorra…"

She couldn't see him anymore besides darkness. Her consciousness was losing. What was happened to her? Had her fever gone up?

"Orihime."

Someone was calling her again. The voice was so familiar.

"Orihime. Ah. You finally wake up."

By the time she opened her eyes, all she saw above was the white color of curtain and Tatsuki's face.

Orihime was lying on the bed. The infirmary bed. Did she just wake up and go back to the past?

Seeing Tatsuki's worry face, Orihime made her voice, "Tatsuki-chan."

Tatsuki made a relieved face. Tatsuki helped Orihime get up and gave her the schoolbag.

"I was looking for you since you haven't come back after going to the infirmary. The school has already ended."

Orihime looked at the window and she realized that it was dusk. So she did really come back to the past.

She felt disappointed a little bit. And then she felt something wet. She reached out her hand and touched her back.

She realized that she sweated too much for her uniform to wet.

It seemed that her fever had gone up again and lowered down just now according to the school doctor.

Orihime asked Tatsuki if Tatsuki had another uniform so she could change her wet uniform. She couldn't walk back home like that.

Luckily, Tatsuki kept another sweater in her locker. She went there to take it while telling Orihime wait here and take off the wet shirt.

As she was taking off her shirt, an image of a red mark flashed by when she looked at the small mirror on sensei's desk.

She turned and looked it back again. There was really a little red mark in the middle of her chest. Was it a bug bite?

But then she started to remember what had just happened with Ulquiorra in the dream. Or rather in the future. Her face started to have the same red color of the mark.

Wasn't that not real? It must be bug bite. I was thinking too much. Ah ha ha ha.

She was laughing in her thought. As much as she composed herself, she still thought it was a really nice dream after all.

"Don't forget…"

"I won't. There's no way that I would forget those kind of thing and with you too."

Orihime whispered. It was so small and soft that no one could hear it.

Tatsuki returned and gave her the sweater. As Orihime was putting it on, Tatsuki asked.

"Is it okay if I walk home together with you?"

Orihime smiled and nodded. "Um. I also want to. "

As both Orihime and Tatsuki walked down to the street, Orihime looked at Tatsuki and asked with her serious eyes.

"Ne, Tatsuki-chan. What will your reaction be if I tell you that I will get a boyfriend in the future?"

"Hm? Well…" So you really intended to get a boyfriend huh? Tatsuki thought and replied the matter seriously as her best friend.

"As long as your boyfriend treasures you, then I won't mind. And as long as you like him, then I will be happy for you."

Tatsuki scratched lightly her face with her finger, a little bit blushing as if she was just saying something cheesy. But that was all her real feeling.

"Thank you, Tastuki-chan!" Orihime smiled happily when she heard Tatsuki's answer.

She hugged her in the middle of the street that caught Tatsuki off guard. But Tastsuki also smiled and hugged her back.

And then Orihime held Tastuski's hand and started walking faster to her home. She wanted to tell Tastuki about her dream in the future when they arrived at her apartment.

She wasn't able to hear the end of what Ulquiorra in the future said. What was he going to tell her? "Don't forget" what…?

But it wouldn't be long that she would hear it again in the future later. And by the time she would meet him again…

She and Ulquiorra would have another adventure in the new dreamland.

"Don't forget… that you said you love me, woman."

END OF SUMMER FESTIVAL DREAM

I intend to make another fic for Ulquiorra's side. Yet, time's short so I only finished this fic satisfiedly. Thank you for reading. I'll be happy if I receive your review.

See you next time in the next Ulquiorra and Orihime's adventure.