Shika's breath rattled nervously as she breathed she ran as fast as she could to her room and slammed the door behind her. Her legs gave way and she fell to her knees breathless. Her tongue had nearly slipped she had even seen herself retorting to her father.

"Why should I? You have Coyote-kun and the rest of the Espada to deal with them. Why the fuck do I need to get involved"

And that name. Kurosaki Ichigo where had she heard it before? She pulled herself to her feet and got changed from her usual kimono style-top and black jeans. She might be living in Hueco Mundo but that didn't mean she would force herself to wear white constantly. In fact she detested white, there was nothing purer than white in the world and she was the child of a demon, who less suited to wear white. She had never understood her father's obsession with white, it symbolised innocence and purity, which he was neither of. She pulled on her white Arracanar gear grudgingly; luckily it covered more than Hallibels but not much. The sides were cut out showing her small waist and the hem barely reached her thighs. She scowled, who would dress their own child so provocatively. She pulled the ribbon from her hair, black, and brought out a small sewing kit from her drawer. She quickly with pinpoint precision sewed the ribbon to the dress changing it into a halter neck holding up the receding neck line and pulling out the bottom hem making the dress reach her knees.

"That's better" she muttered. A knock sounded at her door but it opened before she could answer. Ulquiorra walked in not blinking an eye at Shika's shocked face.

He looked her up and down quickly. "Finally wearing your uniform I see" he said in his usual monotone voice. She blinked; she usually liked Ulquiorra because he didn't say much. "Aizen-sama has told me that you will be finishing Kurosaki Ichigo if he defeats Grimmjow"

"Your unusually talkative today" She sat back onto her bed. " And yes, what of it" She said making it obvious she didn't want to talk about it, but Ulquiorra went on.

"If I may Shika-sama would you leave that to me?" His straight face told her nothing of what he was thinking.

She let out a long sigh. "Sure, I don't really want to deal with it anyways" She flashed a grin at him and he looked at her startled by the sudden change in attitude. "Just don't die on me okay?" He nodded at her and her grin faded away into a scowl. "Jeez I was only joking, so serious" the end of her sentence trailed off into ineligible muttering. He went to go leave when she said "Seriously though… Please none of you die on me" He walked out of the door without a word.

Shika wrapped her arms around her knees and allowed herself to fall onto her side. She didn't know what she would do if any of them died, they were more like family than Aizen was and that's why she had decided she would kill this Kurosaki Ichigo before he got to any of them. An explosion echoed from the other side of La Noches and she pulled her self to her feet with a start and ran barefoot to the site of the explosion and drew her Zanpakuto, Ketsueki kioku ready to face the enemy but Grimmjow was already fighting and when she went to jump in Grimmjow glared at her, she looked back defiantly but still went to sheath her sword, she shifted her head to the side as an arrow of reatisu sped past her. She looked back at her opponent uncaringly. "No one ever teach you not to sneak up on a lady, I'm Shika by the way"

The man opposite her pushed up his glasses. "That doesn't apply in war and I'm Uryu Ishida,Quincy"

She smirked as he drew his bow again. "Let me guess" she mused mockingly "Just want to tell me the name of the person who is going to kill me, in that case I should let you know the full name of the person you are going to kill, Aizen Shika" She hissed the last two words in disgust as Ishida's arrow hit her arm but then dispersed. She grimace a little at the pain. "I'm not an Arracner, a Quincy cant kill me." Uryu noticed a note of sadness in her voice at her words but before he could say anything he was sent flying into a wall. "I'm sorry" she said sympathetically "Just like you guys I do this for a reason" She paused for a minute. "I won't kill you okay? Just don't tell anyone it was me you were fighting, or both of us die" She sat against the pillar next to Ishida"Thank You"

"For what?" Ishida's voice came out ragged and breathless.

"For not killing any of my family yet." With that she walked away to check how Grimmjow was doing with Ichigo.