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Chapter 5

Ulquiorra

Ulquiorra eyed the bottle suspiciously. He knew whatever Szayel had put in the bottle would not kill him, but he was still slightly wary of it. Reminding himself that he needed to take whatever measures necessary to fulfill the task Aizen had given him, he swallowed one of the pills. Then, he waited. Tensing, he continued waiting for the effects. After 20 minutes of waiting, still nothing had happened. Deciding that the pills were ineffective, or required more time, Ulquiorra gracefully lay down on his bed. When he got up several hours later, he still felt no different. Sighing in frustration, he sat up. Eyes widened as he realized he had just sighed…something he had never done. Shaking it off as only an odd occurrence he went to the tiny kitchen to prepare the woman's breakfast. While boiling the mush as usual, (for he trusted no other Arrancars to fulfill his duty), something else odd happened. He actually wondered what the woman would like to eat. He quickly rationalized the thought out in his head- no, he was not concerned, it would just make his duties easier if she ate her food without being threatened. After realizing it was not such a bad idea, he rummaged through the cabinets and found something called "red bean paste". All of this human food sounded disgusting to Ulquiorra. He placed the container on the tray anyways, and proceeded to Orihime's room. On the way, he unfortunately passed Grimmjow, who glared at him and clenched his fist. Normal Ulquiorra would have muttered "trash" and walked on. Drugged Ulquiorra, however, looked Grimmjow in the eyes and asked him a question.

Grimmjow

"What offence have I caused to your person for you to be this angry at the sight of me?"

Grimmjow just stared. It looked like Ulquiorra and had the same facial expression; it even had the same monotone voice. But, Ulquiorra would never even so much as say "hello", the best Grimmjow usually got was being called trash. What the fuck? What the hell was going on here? Grimmmow's veins biled- if he was still asleep and the annoying LIlinette bitch was bothering him again he was gonna punch her. Stupid little girl, always coming into his room to try and screw up his dreams. He decided punching something sounded like the best solution, and punched the wall near Ulquiorra's head. The other Espada did not even flinch. That made Grimmjow even angrier, and he would have punched Ulquiorra except the blood trickling down his fist and pain in his hand proved he was awake. Which means, hitting Ulquiorra might cost him his life. The odd Ulquiorra replacement raised an eyebrow at him. Wait. Raised an…eyebrow? Ulquiorra's facial expression could change? On top of that, his facial expression changed just because Grimmjow punched something (an hourly occurrence, by the way)?

Completely freaked out, Grimmjow decided to flee. While running down the hall, he heard another monotone sentence. "I see. We will discuss this later." Grimmjow upped his run to Sonido.

Orihime

…And then she would smash the school so she and Tatsuki could just go and eat squid ice cream all day. Caught up in her daydream, Orihime did not notice Ulquiorra enter. She continued with her smashing of the city as a giant robot, pew-pew-pew sounds included. The evil flying octopus monsters had to be vanquished! *

"Woman, what are you doing?" Orihime froze, sitting on her bed, hands in invisible gun shapes. Blushing, she lowered her hands into her lap and apologized.

"here is your breakfast. Eat it within the hour. "She looked at the tray, expecting her usual mush and water. This time, she saw something else on the tray too. Eyes widened as she slowly read each character. A huge smile lit her face and she briefly debated jumping up and hugging Ulquiorra. Again, her voice of reason suggested against it. Instead, she profusely thanked Ulquiorra and smiled brightly. A flash of something passed his face, she could not quite decipher what it was, and he exited the room. After demolishing her meal in 10 minutes, she sat and thought about things. She wanted to ask Ulquiorra what he meant by "your color is yellow". She certainly hoped she was not completely yellow, if her skin was too dark of a yellow she might look like one of those oompa loompas she had heard about from America. America must be a werid place, she thought, if they have orange-skinned midgets working their candy factories. Back to her orginal thoughts, she wondered what was wrong with Ulquiorra. First, he gets super close to her, and then he brings her one of her favorite foods! Maybe…he had feelings for her? She blushed; he was rather good looking, she thought. Laughing at her own silly thoughts, she shook her head. Ulquiorra having emotions? That sounds like crazy thoughts, soon she would be locked up in a special padded room for thoughts like that! She was about to laugh at herself when Ulquiorra re-entered. He looked a little surprised that she had finished her meal completely (it looked like she had even licked the bowl…). Smiling brightly at him, she thanked him for the delicious meal again. Gathering courage from the lack of him calling her trash, she asked Ulquiorra the question that had been bothering her.

"Why did you say I was yellow?"

The answer was something she had never expected.

Author's note: I know she seems a little ridiculous here, but I imagined that if she was forcing herself out of her depression, she might be overdoing it a little bit. So, it ended up with her being a little out of character for the situation. Sorry!