"Ulquiorra-sama.....What am I doing here?" Shiruki asked, shifting further up into a sitting position.

Ulquiorra closed his eyes and walked over to his desk, putting some papers on it.

"Ulquiorra-sama, why am I here...?" she tried asking again. Once again, he didn't answer. Shiruki slid her legs over the bed and stood up, pushing the pain to the back of her mind.

"I have to get back to Nnoitra-sama...." She was about to head towards the door when Ulquiorra looked up at her.

"You are not going back to him."

"W-What...?"

"You are no longer Nnoitra's fraccion."

"Why not?" Shiruki asked.

"He was abusing you. Although you are trash, he went too far with his behavior towards you."

"...Oh...well....what do I do now?"

Ulquiorra looked over her. Her cuts had gotten a bit better, even though it had only been one day since she had received them. She was still wearing the uniform Nnoitra had picked out for her. He couldn't stand to see her like that anymore, both in a good and bad way.

"I would suggest you change clothes." and with that he walked out of the room.

"Change my clothes...." Shiruki looked down at herself. When she first put on this uniform she felt nothing. The feeling of not being wanted by Ulquiorra had taken over her mind. But now when she had overcome those feelings, she felt her face heating up. She would never have worn anything like that. Quickly, she went out into the hall. She was turning the corner when she head her name being called.

"Shiruki~!"

Shiruki twirled around, her hair swirling behind her and a look of surprise on her face.

"Lillynette!"

Lillynette grinned and held up Shiruki's old uniform, "I got somethin' for ya!"

Shiruki smiled and eyes twinkled as she followed Lillynette to her room.

"Are you sure it's alright for me to be here?" Shiruki asked as she walked into Stark and Lillynette's room.

"Yea, it's fine. Stark's out sleeping somewhere else so he won't bug us with his snoring." Lillynette chuckled, "Well, here ya go!"

She tossed Shiruki's old uniform to her.

"Thank you, Lillynette!"

"Don't mention it! Besides, I don't think Ulquiorra would like to see you in that everyday."

"...Why would he see me everyday? I'm Nnoitra-sama's fraccion now."

"Yea, yea, you USED to be Nnoitra's fraccion. After Ulquiorra found you all cut up and bleeding outside Nnoitra's room, he went straight to Aizen and told him. He said something like, 'Aizen-sama, Nnoitra is treating his fraccion in an inappropriate behavior. I think it would be of your benefit to remove her as a fraccion.' Then Aizen said something like, 'I see. We can't have that now, can we? But I still want Shiruki to be a fraccion. I have plans for her. Now, who can I have take her in as a fraccion?' Then Ulquiorra said something like, 'If it would please you, Aizen-sama, she could become my fraccion and I could see to it that she will not become unusable for your plans.' Then Aizen said, 'Yes, that would be nice. She's your fraccion once again, Ulquiorra.' And that's that! That's how Ulquiorra begged for you to become his fraccion again and to not be hurt by the spoon again!"

"H-He didn't beg for me to come back! He, he just-"

"He just what? Didn't want to see you hanging around some other guy other than himself, or didn't want to see you getting hurt?"

"N-No! He just did it for Aizen-sama! But...I wonder what his plans for me are....I can't think of anything..."

"You really don't know?" Lillynette asked, a dumbfound look on her face.

"No, I don't. Should I?" Shiruki asked innocently.

"Ah, never mind." she walked over to the small table in a corner and grabbed a small white box. Then she went over to Stark's bed, the one he never used since he had a pile of beanbags, and climbed onto it. She sat the box next to her and patted her hand on the part of the bed in front of her, "Now let's get thoes cuts taken care of!"

Shiruki smiled at the other fraccion's generosity and went over and sat on the bed. Her uniform barly covered her so they didn't have to take off any clothes to get to the cuts. Lillynette took out some type of liquid and poured it on a cloth, then dabbed it on Shiruki's cuts. It stung a lot, but Shiruki didn't want to be bothersome so she just bit her tongue, but not too hard. After Lillynette was done disinfecting the cuts she got out some water and poured that onto the cloth and rinsed the cuts with it. At last she dabbed them dry and placed bandages over stood up and placed a hand over her left shoulder, where one of the deeper cuts had been.

"Thank you, Lillynette!"

"You're welcome, now, go and change already! Seeing you in that outfit sends me messages of what Nnoitra would have done to you if Ulquiorra wouldn't have stepped in."

"Y-Yes!"

Lillynette stepped out of the room and Shiruki stripped her clothes off. As she was putting on her old uniform she became more comfortable. The uniform that showed that she belonged to Ulquiorra, the 4th Espada.

'Proof that I belong to him.....weather he likes it or not!' Shiruki giggled at her little inside joke. Her uniform fit just like before. You could see the bandages on her shoulders and on her stomach, the spots where her skin showed and through her top and gloves.

"You done yet?!"

"Yes!"

"Sigh." Lillynette sighed as she closed the door after walking back in.

"Thanks a lot, again, Lillynette! If you hadn't helped me rinse my cuts I wouldn't have ended up doing it." She smiled sheepishly.

"Yea, don't worry about it! It's all water under the bridge now, you got that? No more 'thank you' talk!"

"Okay. Sigh. I guess I'll have to wait a few days for my cuts to heal.....and I won't be able to train during that time...which means it'll take longer to reach my goal of becoming a fraccion that is worthy of belonging to the fourth Espada. Sigh."

"Shiruki! You have to stop saying that stuff, alright?"

"Hm? Why...?"

"Well, it's not that it's bad or anything...but the way I see it, you are already as good as Ulquiorra, if not better. So it's kind of strange to see you trying to accomplish something you have already accomplished."

"Oh...I'm sorry...I didn't realize that it was bothering you..."

"Gah! Shiruki, you don't have to apologize! Ah, come on! Will you come and help me find Stark?"

"Sure."

This chapter was up faster than the last, huh? :P It's kinda a....drabble I guess...

So, Shiruki has become Ulquiorra's fraccion again~ Yay~ And Lillynette is in the chapter~ I love her, she's so much fun~ Especially when we first see her in the anime/manga, I couldn't stop laughing!! Umm, so thank you again for reviewing and for reading the story.....and....I'll now start on the next chapter~ *waves*