Chapter Fifty:
Hide and Seek
Seren entered her/Ulquiorra's room. She sighed with relief.
"And now I am going to relax and not get up again!" She fumed. She threw her clothes over her head, tossed them into a pile, huffed, and set up a bath. The pink bottle of shampoo (she was running out- she needed to go ask Mila Rose for some more. Speaking of Mila, where had they gone? Had they fallen off of the face of the earth?). She would pay a visit to Mila Rose, Sun-sun, and Apache first thing when she woke up later.
The water was hot and steaming by the time Ulquiorra got back. The sweet smell of raspberries floated in from the bathroom on shiny pink bubbles. Seren's not-exactly-tonally-perfect singing flowed forth in slightly off but stylistic notes.
"Because I've only begun to know you…but I know you better than I know myself. This can't be right, but I refuse to fight-"
Ulquiorra smiled to himself, sat down on the couch, and listened the her singing, breathed in the sweet smells, and savored the moment.
Seren, completely unaware that she wasn't totally alone, kept indulging in her singing. It was pure bliss. Her long hair soaked up the perfumed water. She vigorously scrubbed herself everywhere. "La la la," she hummed joyfully.
After a while she came out, still singing, carrying her dirty clothes, needing to find a new pair to change into.
Little did she know, Ulquiorra was back.
Still humming, she walked out of the bathroom, naked, singing.
Ulquiorra's mouth dropped open.
Seren turned to him.
She did a double take and blinked.
"!"
She stopped to breathe. "!" She threw her clothes at Ulquiorra's face, blinding him, and she jumped into the bathroom and shut the door.
Ulquiorra, obviously, hadn't been expecting to see Seren naked either. He mentally reeled back.
Well then.
"Erase that image from your mind!" Seren yelled from behind the bathroom door. "ERASE IT! NOW!"
"I don't think that's possible, unless I cero my head." Ulquiorra replied dryly.
"Well go ahead!" Seren shrieked.
Ulquiorra felt a little hurt at that.
"I will leave the room."
"No! That doesn't help at all!"
"If I leave then you can grab your clothes."
"NO! That doesn't help what has already been done!"
"You're being ridiculous."
"You should have warned me that you were there!"
"Calm down."
"NO! No No No no no no no no no no no!" Seren shrieked, her voice rising octaves. She grabbed her now-empty shampoo bottle and hurled it at Ulquiorra around the door as hard as she could.
He dodged.
"DAMMIT! Get out, now!"
"That is what I said before."
"LEAVE!"
So Ulquiorra went out the door, while he waited for Seren to finish. Just then Grimmjow came slouching along.
"Oi, Ulquiorra!" He called. "Where's Seren?"
"In the room."
"Oh. Well, I'll go say hi."
"Grimmjow-"
Of course, Grimmjow made good use of his normal care for others (none) and opened the door.
"Hey Sere-!"
BAM! This time the shampoo bottle made its mark, right in the middle of Grimmjow's forehead.
He fell over.
Ulquiorra smirked at him.
"Why didn't you tell me she was NAKED, dumbass!" Grimmjow howled from the floor.
"I was going to, but you didn't want to listen to me."
"DAMMIT ULQUIORRA!"
If Ulquiorra hadn't been Ulquiorra, he would have been rolling on the floor laughing uncontrollably. However, because he was, he stayed as emotionless as ever.
Grimmjow stopped tasting the floor and got up. "Well," he said stoically, "the view was worth it."
If Grimmjow had been any slower, he would have been ceroed flat against the wall by Ulquiorra.
"Hey!" He yelled. "What was that for?"
"Seren," the other replied evenly. He raised his hand for Grimmjow.
"Whoa- wait!" The other cried.
One loud scream could be heard.
Later, Seren was dressed and calmed down. "What happened to Grimmjow?" She asked.
"I wonder," Ulquiorra replied.
Seren walked outside. "Wow! There's a giant hole in the wall!" She gasped. "And look! A bit of Grimmjow's hair (it's blue) and… smoke? I smell burning fur."
Seren looked around.
She could have sworn she saw Ulquiorra's mouth twitch into a smile.
