After crying for hours, Nina lay like a zombie on her bed looking out at the crescent moon in the night sky in Hueco Mundo. She felt so bad for lying to Hanataro the way she did and that she left him when they first came here from a hollow yanking her through a portal. He was so sweet; he didn't deserve to be lied to even though he lied to her about being a soul reaper. She did deserve to be lied to though after running from him. Nina was beating herself up inside but was interrupted by the squeak of her door opening. She looked over with teary eyes to see who it was. Once she noticed it was Ulquiorra, she wiped it with her sleeve. He came in by himself leaving the door open behind him.
"Why do you cry girl?" Ulquiorra asked. Nina thought that this was an impolite remark.
"You wouldn't understand." She said coldly before wiping her eyes again then looked back at the moon.
"You're right. I don't understand why you humans weep." Nina was sort of surprised that Ulquiorra said this out loud but she believed what he had said. "I have brought you dinner." He stepped aside and an arrancar came in rolling a cart with her food on it then the arrancar left closing the door behind it.
"I'm not hungry right now." Nina said.
"Fine, but I'm going to stand here and watch you until you eat every last bite." He replied.
"I don't want it." She finally said to make it obvious from her first comment that she meant she wasn't going to eat it.
"If you won't have it, then I will have no other choice but to make you eat it. Would you like me to tie you down and force it down your throat or perhaps you would like me to give it to you intravenously?" Nina was disgusted but she turned away from him.
"I don't want it." She said again. Ulquiorra walked around her bed and blocked her view of the moon. He shone from the light it gave off and his eyes were more intriguing than usual.
"You don't think I'm serious about this do you."
"No I don't." She said. Ulquiorra looked at her before speaking.
"Very well, I will inform lord Aizen about your failure to cooperate." He said and as he was about to turn away, Nina stopped him.
"Wait." She said. "Fine, I will eat." She didn't want to see Aizen of all people. "Just don't bring Aizen into this."
"I'm going to stay here and make sure you eat every bite." He said walking over to the tray of food. Nina climbed over her bed and looked at the food before putting a small mouthful of it into her mouth. Yuck, arrancar food sure tastes gross compared to the food in the World of the Living. She found it very hard to swallow the food without gagging in front of Ulquiorra but she managed to for all the mouthfuls she had to take. Ulquiorra stood there quietly watching as Nina struggled to eat her plate of food. He had wondered something about Nina since they first met.
"Why are you not afraid of me after I threatened to kill you?" He finally asked and broke the silence. "Back in the World of the Living."
"Who says I'm not?" She said with a bit of food in her mouth.
"So you are?"
"I never said that either."
"You're annoying me." Ulquiorra said and there was another moment of silence as Nina swallowed. She sat there looking at her food and Ulquiorra wondered why she had stopped. She looked to him.
"Why, why didn't you kill me?" She said with a sad heart that her eyes reflected. Ulquiorra looked at the sadness in her eyes and actually enjoyed seeing them. He found the emotion of sadness rather interesting because it shows what the heart is really feeling.
"You're trash that isn't worth killing." He finally said. Nina looked up at him with disbelief.
"You don't mean that. If I'm trash then I would have been disposed of long ago." She said looking back down at her plate that was almost done. "You even said so yourself: 'Trash will be discarded.'" Ulquiorra was shocked that Nina remembered his comment and took it to heart, he didn't think that she would take that comment so seriously. "Why did you even say that comment if you knew I wasn't worth killing?" Nina watched Ulquiorra intently, her eyes begged for an answer but he gave none. "Do you like seeing me like this? Is that it?" Ulquiorra's expression never change as he observed her.
"Yes." Was all he said. First Nina was saddened but then she turned angry at the sickening statement. She tried to think of something she could say to make him eat those words so she decided not to say anything like that, instead she threw her arms down.
"Do you not have a heart?" Nina's voice rose. Silence.
"...Yes." Was all he said. Nina looked down.
"Oh." She said quietly. "Sorry I asked." Silence again.
"Is your sadness because of your heart? Is sadness what makes you humans so weak?"
"My heart... is sad." Once Ulquiorra's second question processed through her head, she frowned at him. "Sadness is not a weakness. Sadness means that we have been strong for too long."
"I see." He finally took his eyes off of Nina to look down. "Your heart is sad because your heart is strong." He thought out loud. Nina set her fork down after eating only three quarters of what was on her plate. Ulquiorra looked at it before he allowed an arrancar to take it away. He followed the arrancar out the door but he stopped and looked back at Nina finding her looking down. "You humans are unusually interesting." He said before walking away. Nina watched as his robe floated behind him as he walked down the hall.