Yuzumi sat on the bed in her old room with Renji at her side; she kept staring at the very spot that her life became almost unbearable. Thoughts of what happened in the throne room running wild within her mind as her eyes were fixated on the bed. Renji stared at her with worry as she didn't seem to respond to any movement or touch that he did. Renji started to become angry as he knew that Aizen was the reason this once happy child had become who sat before him like a statue. Renji got up from the bed and balled his fists up tightly as he prepared to go to Aizen in the throne room. Yuzumi grabbed his arm in a vice grip as she slowly raised her head to look at Renji in the eyes, he immediately noticed that her bright green eyes were now a muted shade of green; closer now to a deep emerald.
"You mustn't kill him yet." Renji shook his arm trying to free himself only fo Yuzumi to grip tighter to the point he could feel the bones in his arm break. Renji held back a grunt of pain as he looked at Yuzumi.
"And why the hell not?"
"Aizen will bring his own downfall. The Espada are surely turning on him at this point that all we have to do is wait for our chance to finish him off." Renji had never heard Yuzumi talk in such a way but nodded down at her none the less.
"Alright, I will wait then. If what you say is true then our chance will be once the soul reapers attack. You do realize that we will have to fight people that we used to regard as friends and family, don't you?" She nodded.
"I'm also aware with me having joined the ranks as Espada number one I will be the one who fights to protect Aizen." Immediately Renji understood her plan. Yuzumi was to let the reapers fight against Aizen with her "help" but she would allow their attacks through.
"Yuzumi, you know this will be the end of both of us." She nodded once more.
"I'm not afraid to die, Renji. In the Society we fought hollows each day with the thought in our minds that we could potentially die today, that has not changed now that we Espada on the opposite side. We fight for our own goals." Ulquiorra walked into the room as she finished talking. He looked at her with the same look of shock that I had when he laid his eyes upon her.
"Why does my appearance seem to come at such a surprise? My soul has been robbed from me, has it not? Meaning I have no reason to act as I once did. I am Halibel's child after all." Ulquiorra chuckled before walking to her and sitting beside her with his arm wrapped around her. Yuzumi leaned into his body with her head on his shoulder looking out to the wall. Renji sighed and walked out of the room to give them space.
"You know you're going to have to let me go, Ulquiorra." Ulquiorra seemed surprised that Yuzumi knew what he would say before he even said it himself. She looked up at him with her face softening just ever so slightly.
He sighed as he looked down at her, "I'm not ready to yet."
"We're all going to perish some day Ulquiorra; We can't live forever." He nodded.
"Sometimes I do wish." He kissed her head before laying back in the bed with her.
