Chapter 3: School

the next morning ulquiorra awoke early and picked out his clothes goi to the bathroom to wash his face. He stood at the door and stared at it with his cold emotionless eyes. He couldn't reach the handle and that meant he probably couldn't reach the sink. He thought for a moment and decided the girl named yuzu would be the most helpful in this situation. He sensed her room out and went knocking lightly. He heard the girl get up and start towards the door. When she opened the door he looked up at her.

"Miss yuzu. Can you help me open the door to the bathroom and wash my face so I can get ready?" He asked. Yuzu blinked and looked down at the child and smiled.

"Yes of course I can help come on." She said and took his hand going to the bathroom. She opened the door and opened the cupborads.

"See I have a stool so you can reach. I will start leaving it out for you to use." She said softly smiling. Ulquiorra's lips twitched and he nodded in thanks to her. He set his clothes on the counter and washed his face and true to his word the marks on his face wouldn't come off. He then turned.

"Thanks for your help miss yuzu. I'm going to go get dressed now." He said to the girl. She nodded and went to the door

"I will let you use the bathroom. I will go to the kitchen and start breakfast . Come down when your done and I can make you something yummy." She said softly and left closing the door but not all the way so the toddler could her out. He took off his pj's and put on the black t shirt and the white jacket over the top and then had white skinny jeans. On his head he had a white beanie to replace the feeling of his helmet. He hated being with out it and found this hat filled the position best. He left the bathroom and put his pj's in the closet. He turned seeing ichigo sitting up. Ulquiorra looked at him with his cold eyes

"good morning ichi-nee." He chirped in monotone. Ichigo blinked and looked at the child.

"Good morning ulquiorra." Ichigo replied "you slept well?" He asked. The child stared at him and Gam a small shrug. He didn't sleep the best nightmares of the other arrancar beating him up and letting him get away. Then the strongest one came and helped him he took him out of las notches and to the man with the hat and the cat lady. He turned and went to the door. He stopped and looked back at ichigo looked at the young hollow questioningly.

" miss yuzu is making breakfast so hurry to come down. I don't want to be alone to long." He said swiftly and turned scurrying down the hall and into the kitchen where he could smeel yummy things. He poked his little head in and saw yuzu making pancakes. He saw another with black hair sitting at the table. He walked in past the girl to yuzu and tugged lightly on her shirt. She looked down and smiled.

"Oh hello ulquiorra~ go sit at the table and I will make you some hot chocolate and a lunch to take to school." She said to him patting his head. He nodded and went to the chair next to the one ichigo would sit in. He stared at Karin and she stared back.

"Yuzu why is there a kid?" Karin asked

"This is rukia's little cousin. He is going to stay with us for a while." She replied bring breakfast over to the two. She gave the toddler a plastic cup with hot chocolate in it. Now ulquiorra may not be one for eating but when it came to sweet things he couldn't help himself. He took the cup and happily drank what he was given. Karin was still staring at the child but shook it off when they heard a crash upstairs. Ulquiorra kept his neutral face and finished half of breakfast as ichigo and rukia came down in their school clothes. Ichigo's dad came in behind them and ran hugging yuzu going on about his daughters. He turned looking at ichigo and ulquiorra

"And my two unloving son's" he wined hugging yuzu and and rukia now. Ulquiorra stared at the oldest male and hopped down from his chair and took his hot chocolate and going to the living room to wait. He didn't like being around bunches of people for to long. Ulquiorra didn't like to be touched and only spoke when he needed to. Ichigo and rukia came in and ichigo picked up the toddler running to the door.

"Shit hurry up rukia we are going to late again!" He said running out the door. Rukia was right behind him with her back and ulquiorra's bag. The toddler didn't complain to being carried by ichigo. He wonder why he let ichigo carry him and no one else and decided it was because ichigo was the strongest and had offered to protect him so he had a faint sense of security. He was pulled from his thoughts when they got to school and were greeted by orihime chad uuryu and some others he could care less about. He wiggled out of ichigo's arms and landed on his feet. He walked faster strait to orihime. He tugged on her skirt and she smiled.

"Ulquiorra is that you?!" She asked surprised. The toddler nodded and she smiled bending down and picking him up.

"I missed you." She said holding him in a tight hug which he allowed because orihime was a person he trusted almost as much as he trusted stark. Ichigo slowed to a stop in front of the group and stared at ulquiorra.

"He's letting you hug him?" He asked surprise.

"Yeah! Why is he here? And why is he a toddle?" Asked chad. The bell for class rang and all questions were dropped and they ran inside to class. Ulquiorra sat in an empty desk next to orihime and was given a little school bag with things for him to do. He had settled on reading one of orihime's fantasy books. He had was half way through it and didn't have much trouble. At the bell every on packed up their things and got their lunches. Ulquiorra decided since he wasn't home he wouldn't eat and left his lunch behind following the group to a nice shady spot for lunch. There were plant of trees and the grass was cool. They all sat in a circle ulquiorra sitting right between ichigo and orihime. Orihime was next to uryu and they were descretly holding hands. Ulquiorra had noted and looked at the Quincy staring for a moment before deciding he was good enough for orihime. He was smart and would protect her so he would do. He knew orihime would make good choice she was a great person she had been one of the first few people to make him feel again. He liked her but no more then friends the one he liked most was his friend since he was little. He was pulled from his thoughts when a red headed girl came up and groped orihime. The orange haired girl shoved her off and ulquiorra stared at her knowing his emotionless eyes would scare her a bit. She was scared and went over to the other side of the circle and sat. He felt his lips twitch and then go back to normal. He heard ichigo explaining to the humans whom had suddenly joined the group and asked about him. The Quincy spoke up

"ichigo where is his lunch? Don't tell me you aren't feeding him."

"What no yuzu made him a lunch he must have left it in the classroom." Ichigo said back and orihime looked down.

"Do you want to go get ulquiorra?" She asked and he shook his head.

"I don't eat." He said looking up at her. She frowned and furrowed her brows.

"But you have to eat." She said confused. Everyone nodded in agreement.

"No. In las notches I never ate." He said and they all stared at him. He felt uncomfortable under everyone's gaze. He stood and flash stepped to a tree and jumped up from branch to branch til he reached the top. The group looked confused and orihime stood.

"We should get him down!" She said worriedly.

"No, he got up there he can get down when he wants to." He said to the girl half the group nodded so she sat down.

"What's las notches?" Asked one of the humans.

"Oh that's where he lived his dad lived in a community house." Rukia said smoothly happy with her great excuse. They all nodded and went back to eating. At the end of lunch ulquiorra had come down and went with everyone inside. He noticed ichigo's soul reaper badge and had an idea. Instead of sitting around waisting time doing nothing he could escape let this body sleep and he could go exploring. He would be fine because he would have his weapon and wings then. He could crush any hollow that got in his way. He got ichigo to to carry him and he swiped the soul badge. Once in the class room he curled up under his desk and used the soul badge to leave the gigai. He made sure to close the gigai's eyes and snuck out of the class room through the window. His lips twitched and he started to flash step from roof to roof looking about the town. He was in the town square when he bumped into someone on the roof tops. He looked up seeing a soul reaper. He frowned and jumped back standing away from him. The soul reaper looked at ulquiorra surprised and drew his sword.

"What are you doing here arrancar? Go back to las notches." He growled and attacked the toddler. Ulquiorra quickly dodged and drew out his wings floating above him he held out his hand and a green ball of light appeared and he tossed it at the soul reaper's feet. There was aflash and a puff of smoke. Ulquiorra took this moment to escape and run past the soul reaper and get away to the next roof top. He quickly began running. He didn't like fighting when it wasn't needed besides he was on ichigo's team now. Everyone else had bullied him out of las notches and stark said this was better then the forest and he was right. He was always right. He slowed down once he thought he'd lost the soul reaper and caught his breath. He sniffed the air and wheeled something sweet. He looked around and found a stand with funny little fish pastries. He watched a little boy eat one and saw there was chocolate inside. He swiped one and was back on the roof tops. As he walked he saw rukia ichigo and the others walking. He stayed hoping on the roof following them through the town. They were all walking home. He was pulled from his thoughts when he saw ichigo staring back at him. He stared for a moment and went back to jumping ahead of them to watch them walk. Soon rukia, orihime, chad, and uryu had spotted him to. They didn't say anything until the normal people split off to go home.

"Ulquiorra come down here and get in your gigai!" Ichigo called. The little hollow shook his head.

"No. Its stiff and uncomfortable. I want to walk home like this." He said staying on the roof top. Ichigo frowned and shook his head.

"Fine but when we get home rukia and I want to talk with you about the spike of retsu earlier." He said sternly. Ulquiorra wrinkled his nose a bit and turned moving faster and more off course arriving to the house at the same time rukia and ichigo had. He settled into his gigai and let ichigo carry him inside.

/this is a good place to stop so yeah hope you guys like it. Don't expect me to update as often as I have been I should have the next chapter soon though./