Not much longer than the last... stupid vacation, always getting in the way of writing before I even go on you.
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Love, Keta.
Chapter 9: Suteki Da Ne (Final Fantasy X)
The moon in the sky has a trembling heart
Shown on like glass and steadily
Stars crying tears in an overflowing stream
I see the night all around me
Ulquiorra's POV
The garganta opens right across my sister and me outside of Las Noches, and I turn around lazily to greet the others. Keta smiles sweetly at her boys who crash down beside her. "So how'd you fuck up?" I ask.
"Easily," Byakuya answers, setting down gracefully beside me. "Keta's reiatsu gave Ichigo away. That and the fact that Grimmjow and you keep coming to talk with him."
"Hey! I get bored!"
"You get bored a lot," María teases, still standing while Keta snatches up Toushiro to keep in her lap.
"A whole lot. But I'm pretty sure Orihime would eventually be willing to help relieve that boredom."
"Ichimaru!" I pull of my shoe and throw it at the albino who ducks down almost falling off of the tower in the process.
"Now, now, boys," my sister says, scratching her little ice wolf behind the ears. "Let's behave. We will have to get our friends before all falls apart you know."
"Yeah, yeah. But what about the Soul Society?" Byakuya inquires.
"Let's murder," I answer.
"Murder, really?" Ichigo give me an incredulous look.
"Yeah!"
"You are such a dork."
"I know." Keta reaches over to pet my head to and for reasons I cannot explain, I melt into her touch. "Do you have a better idea?"
"Can't we just kill the Soul King?" she whispers.
"But who would take his place?" María asks.
"Kitzan of course."
"But would he want to?" Ichigo inquires.
"Hasn't he always wanted to be?" Toushiro asks, for the first time opening his surprisingly big mouth.
"No. He just wanted to protect U'ra and me." Her sapphire eyes stare across the sands like little jewels. Her silvery pale hands move back over to the midget on her lap, and she rest that royal head on his. "If we push the bastard far enough, he could bend. But the best way to do that is to go to the heart of the problem. Perhaps this time, everything will work out."
"Perhaps," we all whisper.
Keta's POV
I lay down next to my mates, smiling to myself. Ichigo snuggles into my chest in a true beta fashion, a contented Cheshire cat grin winding itself onto the orangette's face. Ichimaru curls around me. As an alpha-beta, he's more possessive than his more easy-going brother. The room, my actual room, that no one knows about, is an exact duplicate of our room so long ago. Only one thing is different, a window into Las Noches, showing the eternal crescent moon.
Ulquiorra's sleeping in our room with Orihime for the time being, until everything settles and we can get a room for the two of them put together. But for now, it works, and our family's safe.