AN: I know I've been really slow writing this chapter… But it's done now, and I hope you like :)

Ps. I don't own Bleach.

Ulquiorra was not a happy camper.

That is not to say that under different circumstances Ulquiorra would have been a happy camper, as we all know that Ulquiorra is the King Emo. But no… Ulquiorra was definitely less then pleased with this turn of events. Everything had been fine and dandy until Grimmjow had opened his big, fat mouth and come up with a plan worse then Keigo's had been. Although he had at least known how to spell it. Grimmjow's plan had sounded conceivable when they were trapped in the cell together and Ulquiorra was desperate to get out. But know that he had become trapped twenty feet underneath Las Noches with Grimmjow's ass in his face; Ulquiorra was beginning to wish he had stayed behind.

"Stop breathing, dammit, Ulquiorra, do you have any idea how weird you breathing on my butt feels?!"

"Shut it, Grimmjow. I don't care how weird you think it feels, but it absolutely reeks down here and if you don't think of a way out of here, I swear I will cero your ass."

Grimmjow growled and scrabbled wildly at the roof of the tunnel they were in. Dust fell and blinded him momentarily. After another few attempts at digging out, he finally gave in to his urges and blasted his way out through the white, suffocating dust.

"You're extremely lucky nobody heard that." Ulquiorra commented dryly as he dusted himself off.

Grimmjow shrugged.

"Hey you don't look any paler than normal… you're such a freak." Grimmjow had again reverted to mindless insults. Ulquiorra had had more then enough of Grimmjow's childish-ness. He began to walk.

"Hey! Where do you think you're going?"

Ulquiorra ignored him. Grimmjow ran and caught up.

"If you're going to try and visit your little boyfriend, I'd forget it. If Aizen found out that you went to the human world without permission you might get demoted." He snickered. "How dreadful for you Ulqui, wouldn't it just be awful not to Aizen-sama's little favourite anymore." Grimmjow was enjoying his little tirade far too much. Ulquiorra looked at the lower ranked Espada witheringly.

"What I do is none of your, or Aizen's, business." He felt by saying that he was betraying his master, but if Aizen hadn't locked him up with this creep in the first place then everything would have been fine. He opened a garganta and stepped through.

"Goodbye Grimmjow."

Ichigo couldn't believe his ears. He'd heard of tall tales, but this was just insane.

"You seriously want me to believe that these last couple of days you've been in Las Noches, with the Espada and Aizen and you didn't die?"

Keigo sighed.

"I told you that you wouldn't believe me." He replied. He looked lazily out the window and remained silent until Ichigo spoke again.

"Hang on, are you really Keigo, only, the guy I knew was sort of a lot louder and more obnoxious then you. What did you do to him?"

Keigo yawned and went to sleep as a sort of reply.

"Keigo!" Ichigo shook his friend. But it was to no avail.

'Maybe Keigo was telling the truth…" Ichigo mused. 'But they did something to him, like maybe they drugged him, and sent him home as a spy…" Ichigo's mind was working as hard as it could, and so he did not notice the approach of another being.

Ulquiorra was quite glad that Ichigo had not noticed him yet. He had tried to conceal his spirit pressure as best he could and it appeared that it had worked. He had somehow managed to work his way up to the front lawn of Ichigo's house. He was surprised to discover that Keigo knew Ichigo. He was even more surprised to discover him in Ichigo's house. He ran across the street and settled into a tree to wait for Keigo to emerge.

'He can't stay in there forever.' He reasoned.

However, Ichigo had other ideas. Convinced that something was terribly wrong with Keigo he had gotten him admitted into the hospital downstairs and was not going to let him go until he was better. Keigo had woken up and was now complaining. Ichigo saw this as a very good sign.

"Ichigo? What have you done?! Why am I here?"

Ichigo peeped his head around the curtain.

"Shush, Keigo, you're sick, so we're keeping you here until you're better."

"I'm not sick! Ichigo there's nothing wrong with me!"

"There has to be, you're acting weird and the arrancar didn't kill you!"

"Oh! So it would be okay if they did kill me, would it? Some friend you are."

Ichigo growled.

"That's not what I meant, and you know it, Keigo."

Keigo feigned offended silence.

"Come on Keigo, it'll be alright, just hang in there 'til you're better."

With that comment he disappeared. Keigo heard the front door close and lock. He glanced at a clock on the wall. It was late, almost midnight.

"Damn, how'd I manage to sleep that long?" He sat up in the bed and tried to walk around, but discovered that his arm had been fastened to the side of the bed with a pair of handcuffs. He sighed. For some reason his predicament again reminded him of the emo thing. Apparently he should be dead by now. Thinking back on his slightly-less-than-a-week of imprisonment, he was also surprised that he had gotten out alive. He tugged on the bed experimentally, but it wouldn't budge. He was starting to get frustrated. He was hungry, wide awake, everything reminded him of the emo thing, and now, to top it all off, his best friend thought he was crazy. What a week.

Ulquiorra noticed that it had gotten dark. It had been dark for some time now. He was beginning to wonder why Keigo hadn't left the Kurosaki's home yet. One by one the lights in the town went off. He felt the spiritual pressure of the inhabitants of the town slowly dull as they fell asleep. Soon, only one other reitsu in Ulquiorra's immediate surroundings was sharp with consciousness. It was Keigo. Swiftly and silently Ulquiorra stalked up to the house. He paused at the door and tested the handle. It was locked, but he wasn't going to let that stop him. He wasn't sure why he wanted to see the human again. It made no sense. But he was going to anyway. It didn't take much to destroy the door knob, and as soon as he had done that, he was in.

The silence in the building reminded him of the white halls of Las Noches. He soon discovered the hospital wing. He sped past curtain after curtain until he came to the end of the row. Just near him, behind the last curtain he could fell Keigo's spirit.

Keigo heard swift footsteps coming down the hall. As he was considerably less adept then Ulquiorra at sensing reitsu, he assumed it was Ichigo, but wasn't sure why he would be sneaking around his own home.

"Who's there?" He whispered. Then the intruder's shadow, cast by the light of a lamp, fell on the curtain surrounding him.

"Ulquiorra?!" He choked out. "What on earth are you doing here?"

Ulquiorra, having been discovered, slipped through the curtain and stood facing the human feeling rather awkward.

"Well… I escaped from Las Noches and having nothing better to do… came and found you…"

Keigo was impressed.

"You actually escaped? I thought you were too much of a goody-two-shoes for escaping."

Ulquiorra sighed.

"Well, obviously it wasn't my idea."

Keigo snickered.

"So, you owe one to the Kitty-Kat, do you?" He asked nonchalantly.

Ulquiorra scowled. "I most definitely do not owe anything to that infidel."

"Of course not."

"So Keigo, why are you still here?"

Keigo glanced around. "What do you mean by that?"

Ulquiorra shrugged. "I saw you come in here earlier in the day, I was wondering why you hadn't gone home yet?"

Keigo was about to reply when he realised that the emo thing had been stalking him.

"You've been stalking me!" He exclaimed loudly.

Upstairs, a light clicked on. Ulquiorra frantically shushed Keigo as he felt Ichigo's reitsu stirring.

Keigo lifted his arm as high as he could. The chain glinted evilly in the dim light.

"This is why I haven't left. Ichigo thinks I'm crazy."

"Hey Dad, did you leave the door open?"

Ichigo's voice came ominously from down the hall. Somewhere upstairs Isshin replied and Ichigo discovered that the handle was broken. He also noticed a very well concealed, yet eerily familiar reitsu.

"Espada…" He hissed and took off down the hall.

Back with Keigo and Ulquiorra, Keigo was facing an ultimatum.

"Come with me now, or get stuck here with Ichigo. That's your choice Keigo."
"What!? Why can't you stay here?"

"Are you crazy? Ichigo's going to try and kill me! I have to go, I can't be caught here."

Keigo hissed in frustration.

"Fine, I'll go with you, but how? I'm tied to the-"

His query was solved in a flash of Ulquiorra's sword. The chain clinked as it was released of its upright position.

"We'll get the rest off later." He said and darted from the curtain. Without a word Keigo followed him. They raced out the back and into an alleyway behind Ichigo's house. They left behind them the back door swinging wildly and yet another broken door handle.

Ichigo charged down the hall. As he reached Keigo's bed, he noticed the curtain was ruffled. He threw aside the curtain and was stunned to find Keigo gone and the chain that had held him there sliced through. He felt a breeze on his face and ran to the back door. There he discovered another destroyed lock and the back door wide open.

"They kidnapped Keigo…" He whispered in shock.

"This is all my fault…"

What he failed to realise was that Keigo probably would have been 'kidnapped' wether or not Ichigo had been holding him prisoner. He was also unaware that presently Keigo was sitting on someone's roof only two blocks away and was having great trouble trying to get the remains of his handcuff off of his wrist.

"Ow! Stop it! That hurts!"

"Well, if you would just stay still…"

"What! I'm not gonna stay still with that thing waving around me!"

"It's not waving and-"

"Ah! You almost cut me!"

"I did not! If you would stay still it would be off by now!"

The occupants of the house below them woke and with weapons in hand, approached their roof.

Ulquiorra and Keigo froze. Ulquiorra realised that Keigo was finally holding still and took the opportunity to slice through the metal encasing Keigo's wrist.

"Let's go." He hissed as Keigo came out of his shocked state.

As Ulquiorra made his silent way across the rooftops, he couldn't help but flinch at the seemingly deafening amount of noise that the human was making. Finally he could take it no more.

"Why are you so noisy?" He snapped.

Keigo looked at him in surprise.

"Well, I'm sorry, but I guess-"

He was cut off as Ulquiorra roughly pushed him into a wall and covered his mouth with his hand. The familiar reitsu of Grimmjow had entered the human world a while ago, it hadn't bothered Ulquiorra until Aizen's had followed. Futilely he tried to hide in the shadow of an alleyway.

Keigo meanwhile was almost suffocating. When Ulquiorra finally released him, he felt tempted to yell, but considering how they were standing, and his thoughts that were infected by action/romance stories, he decided it would be safer to be as quiet as possible.

"What's going on?" He hissed.

It took all of 3 seconds for his question to be answered. And not by the one he had asked either.

"Hey Ulqui~!" Came a sing-song voice that Keigo couldn't help but recognise. Ulquiorra quickly and awkwardly let go of Keigo, pushing him further back into the alley and out of sight. Grimmjow peered past the shorter Espada but failed to see anything in the gloom.

"What cha doin, Ulqui?" He asked tauntingly. "Hope you weren't making out with your little boyfriend, eh?" He sneered as Ulquiorra struggled to keep his cool.

"Aizen's not happy with your little stunt, you know. He wanted me to track you down for him… Isn't that nice?"

Ulquiorra scowled, and it only deepened when Aizen appeared behind Grimmjow.

"Ah… Ulquiorra, feeling rebellious were we?"

Indignantly he pointed a finger at Grimmjow.

"Yeah, well, I bet he didn't tell you that it was his idea to escape, did he?"

Aizen turned to catch Grimmjow slinking away guiltily. HE turned around again to face Ulquiorra.

"No, he didn't, but are you going to try and tell me that it wasn't your idea to come and have a little joy trip in the human world, hmm?"

Ulquiorra hung his head.

"I apologise Aizen-sama."

Grimmjow laughed.

"That's not going to do you any good now, Ulquiorra."

"Silence, Sexta. I'll get to you in a minute."

Grimmjow paled and rubbed his shoulder nervously. Meanwhile, Ulquiorra had taken advantage of Aizen's momentary distraction and had grabbed Keigo and bolted.

Aizen scowled.

"What have you done to Ulquiorra?" He snapped at Grimmjow.

"What!? What makes you think this is my fault?"

"Well, until you told him to escape, he's become all rebellious. You are usually the rebellious one, so I will blame you for making my favourite child into a rebel!"

Aizen and Grimmjow had a stare off for a couple of minutes.

"Find him." And with that, Aizen turned on his heel and went back to Hueco Mundo.

Grimmjow cracked his knuckles and thought murderous thoughts.

"Ulquiorra Schiffer…" He punched the closest thing to him, which just happened to be a wall.

"You are so dead!"