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'tok'
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"WILL YOU STOP THAT!?"
Grimmjow looked up sulkily as Nnoitra stood fuming. He threw the ball against the wall in his final act of defiance.
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"GAHH!!!!" Nnoitra leapt at the seated Espada, knocking him over, sending the two of them sprawling across the floor.
Ulquiorra glanced up from his seat on the bed. Keigo was laying next to him the strangest position he had seen in a long time, his head hanging off the bed so he could survey the room upside-down.
"You know what…" He said, his eyes following the rolling shapes of his other two cell-mates.
"What?"
"I think I liked it better when it was just the two of us."
Ulquiorra glanced down at the boy and was hit in the head by Grimmjow's toy.
He glared at the two fighters.
"You know what."
"What?" Keigo asked, hauling himself upright.
"I think I agree with you."
Keigo grinned broadly at him, startling a slight blush out of Ulquiorra.
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"I'M GONNA KILL YOU!!!!"
Gin stood outside the cell door and listened in bemusement to the ruckus within the cell.
"Hmm… This is going way better than I expected!"
His smiling face gave nothing away as he stood on guard duty.
"Though I'm beginning to understand Nnoitra's sleeping tendencies. Man, this is boring!"
"WHAT!!" Nnoitra's voice again filled the small space.
"If you insist at yelling all the time, I'm afraid we will have to tape your mouth shut." Ulquiorra's blank stare did nothing to improve the situation.
Grimmjow was also scowling.
"Like hell I'm gonna just let you have the bed!"
"But I called it!" Keigo whined.
"Yeah, but we're bigger 'an you."
Nnoitra and Grimmjow were more then prepared to kill the boy, but Ulquiorra felt like he should have his say.
"Oh, so you two want to share, do you?" he asked nonchalantly.
Nnoitra froze and looked absolutely horrified.
"LIKE HELL!!!"
"Well, if you both want the bed, you would have to share, wouldn't you?"
Grimmjow shuddered.
"Never mind, I'll take the floor."
Ulquiorra smiled, but only for an instant.
"Hey! You smiled!" Keigo exclaimed.
"So?"
"Hey, Ulqui!" Grimmjow called out, keen to get revenge for his defeat.
"What do you want, trash?"
"Where are you gonna sleep? Hmm~?"
Ulquiorra shrugged.
"I don't particularly care, as long as it's as far away as I can possibly get from you."
"Huh? Why, what's wrong with me?"
"The question would be more appropriate put 'What isn't wrong with you."
It took Grimmjow a moment to process this.
"WHY YOU LITTLE!"
He leapt across the room and tackled Ulquiorra to the ground. Having recovered after the initial shock, Ulquiorra gave as good as he got, and the two were soon bruised and bloodied.
"Lucky this room doesn't let them use their full power." Nnoitra commented dryly as he tried to push Keigo off the bed.
Keigo roughly kicked him in the stomach.
"Back off, Spoon-head!"
"SPOON-HEAD!?!" Nnoitra roared.
"Yeah! Spoon-head!" Keigo retorted.
Nnoitra prepared himself to attack, but suddenly found himself flying backwards into Grimmjow.
"Hah!" Ulquiorra proclaimed as his foes tumbled to the floor.
"I'll give you 'hah'!" Grimmjow growled as he yanked Ulquiorra to the floor.
It was several hours later and Keigo's dinner time before Gin took notice of the activity within the cell. He lazily opened the door and carried the dish to a table. He stepped over one of Nnoitra's leg and instantly regretted it as the leg flung out and caught him neatly on the shin. He took stock of the situation. The three Espada were fighting tooth and nail on the floor and at least one of them had lost substantial amounts of blood. Keigo was sitting on the bed watching the fight with a bemused look on his face.
"What's goin on 'ere then?"
Keigo took his food from Gin gratefully.
"Dunno." He replied around a mouthful of food. "I guess they don't like each other much."
Gin chuckled.
"You can say that again."
"I guess they-"
"Not literarily, ya stupid human!"
Keigo looked abashed.
"Sorry."
Gin walked out the room shaking his head. Who knew they'd react this well! He snickered to himself.
"They'll sleep well tonight."
Keigo had long since drifted off to sleep before the fighters finally broke up. The results of their scuffle were relatively minor; considering they could have easily killed each other. Ulquiorra had several gashes on his face which were quickly fixed. The other two, however, were not so lucky. Grimmjow had a black eye to accompany swelling wrist. Nnoitra's injury was slightly more obvious, and less fixable. When he opened his mouth almost all of his front teeth were missing, completely knocked out of his mouth.
"Oww…" Grimmjow complained rubbing his foot. "I think I have one of your teeth in my heel!"
Nnoitra took one look at himself in Keigo's water dish and fainted.
Ulquiorra inspected his fist lazily.
"Hmm…" He murmured. "I appear to have teeth growing out of my hand…"
He went to pull one out of his hand when Grimmjow yowled.
"Aaah!!!"
"What did you do, trash?"
Grimmjow sobbed as blood started pouring out of his foot.
"It hurts!"
"What did you do?!"
"I…I just pulled out Nnoitra's frikken tooth out of my frikken foot and-"
Nnoitra's leg jerked at the mention of his name, solidly hitting the bottom of Grimmjow's foot.
"YEEOOWWW!!!!"
Ulquiorra chuckled at Grimmjow's pain, and then realised that probably much the same would happen to him if he tried to remove the objects lodged in his skin. He uncurled his fist to push himself off the floor.
"ssshhh….sugar-honey-iced-tea…"
Grimmjow snickered.
"Shut up trash." Ulquiorra snapped.
"Eh? What's wrong?" Keigo had woken up and was sleepily surveying the situation.
Ulquiorra scrambled to his feet unsteadily.
"Nothing, I'm fine."
But Keigo didn't believe him, especially since he could see that Ulquiorra was in pain, no matter how well he masked it. He grabbed at his cellmate's injured hand.
"Eh? You have teeth in your hand!"
Ulquiorra shrugged.
"That's no good! Sit, sit!" He pulled the arrancar onto the bed.
"You just wait; I'll fix your hand very quick! Okay?"
Ulquiorra was horrified.
"No, it's alright, I'm fine really!"
His protests, however, were to no avail. Keigo had secure possession of his hand and showed no sign of giving it back any time soon. Ulquiorra resigned himself to his fate, and hoped that his regeneration skills would be enough to fix the mess that the idiot would undoubtedly make of his hand. He sat in anticipation not daring to look.
"All done~!"
"Eh?"
He whipped his head around to see what had happened. Keigo sat holding 5 of Nnoitra's teeth in his hand, and Ulquiorra's hand had not even a scratch on it.
"H-how did you do that?!"
"Do what?"
Ulquiorra pointed to Grimmjow.
"Look what happened to him when he took one tooth out of him! How come I'm not bleeding?!"
Keigo chose that moment as the one time during his entire captivity that he would remain mysteriously silent. Instead of answering the question, he merely grinned and went to sleep.
"What's with that kid?" Grimmjow complained noisily.
"All he ever does is sleep!"
"I know… How anyone could sleep so much is quite strange…"
"Shut up Ulquiorra, no-one asked for your professional opinion."
Ulquiorra glared at him, but was too tired to bother to retaliate. Instead he closed his eyes and tried to sleep where he was.
"Oooh~! Ulqui's sleepin' with the trash!"
Ulquiorra's only response was to roll over so that his back was to Keigo. He almost drifted off when he was startled by something hitting his side. Keigo in his sleep had rolled over, almost on top of him, and was treating him like a teddy bear.
'W-what should I do?' He wondered nervously.
Grimmjow made no comment, presumably because he was asleep, so Ulquiorra let it go and succumbed to sleep's clutches.
AN: Obviously I don't own bleach. This chapter was fun to write! I hope you like it... I don't really know where it's going, so it should be interesting.
Until next time xD