What is a heart 9

Chapter 9

She laid on the couch her eyes heavy from the day. She smiled as she looked at the flowers she was going to give to Grimmjow. He was going to love them. They were so pretty. Her eyes grew heavier. "Thank you…" she said closing her eyes. "Ulquiorra." She said softly.

He looked at her out of the corner of his eyes. She was still smiling. The moon's light was illuminating her like a radiant angel. He walked toward her and genteelly sat on the couch. His green eyes starred at her. Watching her breath. It was amazing to him. Amazed at how beautiful she was.

He closed his eyes. What was he thinking? He is an Espada! Not just any Espada, the fourth Espada! She was simply a human female! Nothing but a soul filled meat puppet filled with useless emotions! He opened his eyes again.

What was he thinking? She was not just a soul filled meat puppet filled with useless emotions. She was a female. A woman.

He brushed her hair to the side. She moved her head toward the warmth of his hand. "Nii-san…" she said in almost a whisper. Her expression changed to sadness as he watched her. Something in him felt as if it was wounded. As if someone was squeezing something. He stood up and walked to the door.

"Ulquiorra…" she whispered. He turned around to see she was still asleep. She was dreaming of him. He wondered what was going on in her mind. He walked closer to her. "What is it Woman?" he asked.

"Ulquiorra…stay away from my…"

He moved in closer. "Stay away from your what?"

"Stay away from my…my…onigiri."

He shook his head as he walked to the door. She thought of him stealing her food. "Foolish Woman." He said leaving her alone.

"Ulquiorra…don't go…" she whispered with a tear running down her cheek.

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Nnoitra slammed the door to Szayel's lab. He turned over the table filled with surgical tools.

"Throwing another tantrum are we?" Szayel asked not taking his eyes from the book he had on human anatomy.

"Your useless device didn't work! She recognized me!" Nnoitra howled as he broke a chair on the floor. "You said it would work!"

"I see," he said still reading the book. "Did it fall off?"

"No."

He turned a page. "I see. Then the answer is simple, you gave yourself away some how."

Nnoitra grabbed him by the collar. "Impossible!"

Szayel kept reading. "Is there by any chance something you do or say when only she is around?"

Nnoitra thought. "Perhaps, I never noticed anything when I'm around Pet-sama."

He turned another page. "And there we have it."

Nnoitra gripped his collar tighter. "Have what?"

Szayel smiled. "You call her Pet-sama when no one else does." He turned the page again. "I'm sure you called her that when you attempted to claim her…" he looked up from his book. "Am I correct?"

Nnoitra put him down. "I can see now how she figured it out."

"Now then, where is my beautiful creation?" He said looking around Nnoitra.

"I destroyed it."

Szayel grew annoyed at that. "Really? Why did you do that?"

Nnoitra dropped the pieces before him and headed for the door. "Find away that I can claim that human!" with that he left.

Szayel picked up a piece of his circlet. He sighed and turned to the wall. He walked over and typed a code. The wall opened up and reviled several of the circlets. He pulled out one and closed the panel. He took the broken piece and pressed a small green button which opened a small slit. He did the same to the other. Inside was a test tube with a black hair in it. He placed the test tube in it and closed the slit.

"There we are." He said setting it on his desk. He turned back to his book. "Chapter 45, Human Reproduction System."

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Ulquiorra let the warm water wash his worries away. It was hard to believe that in two days he had stopped Nnoitra from claiming her twice. He sighed. It was going to be a headache to do it everyday. Yet, he could not go back on Lord Aizen's orders. He was told to protect her, even from his comrades. He turned the water off and wrapped a towel around his waist. On the bed was his clothes freshly laid out. His hair was dripping wet as he turned to the books. He recalled Szayel's words. 'Virgin, it's human for she has not mated yet.'

He looked through a book and tossed it to the side. He picked up another one and found it. "Mating, To be paired for reproducing; breed." He sighed and turned to another page. "Breed, To inseminate or impregnate; mate with." Again he turned the page. "Impregnate, To make pregnant; inseminate." He turned the page again. "Pregnant, Carrying developing offspring within the body." He moved to another book. "Offspring, The progeny or descendants of a person, animal, or plant considered as a group. In animals they are conceived thorough sex." He turned the page. "Sex, the act of a male placing his penis in a female's vagina…" he looked at the picture and threw the book into the wall.

He placed his hand on his face in frustration. That was what it meant to claim? That's what Nnoitra was trying to do to her? He shook his head. Szayel had told him that the first time a female has sex, she bleeds from… Again he shook his head. To do that with her…A sudden rush of warmth ran through his body. An odd sensation that was strangely pleasurable. He felt as if his body was begging him for something. Begging for something that it needed. It seemed that the human woman was the cause of it. If it weren't for her…If only she had not come…He began to get dressed. His eyes narrowed at this new weakness.

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She sat in the room alone once again. She had wished Ulquiorra would have waited till she woke to leave, yet, with all he had done for her…She smiled as she rotated the flowers that had been in his hair. She felt so safe around him. Like she did around her brother, around her friends, around…Kurosaki-kun. Her smile faded.

The door unlocked. She stood up, walking quickly to the door. When the person appeared she froze. This person was someone she did not recognize. Her short braided blonde hair complimented her dark skin well. Her green eyes looking at her. Orihime bowed to her. "Hello." She said in a shaking tone.

"Don't be afraid of me. I will not hurt you." She said in a motherly tone.

Orihime stood up once more. "My name is Inoue Orihime." She said politely.

"I am Tres Espada Harribel Tier." She replied.

Orihime looked at her curiously. She had no idea that there was a female Espada. Let alone that she was third, meaning, she was stronger then Ulquiorra. "It's a pleasure to meet you, Harribel-sama." Orihime said with a kind smile.

Harribel looked around her room. It was larger then her own but it lacked so much. There were things that she had that this girl needed. One of them being a proper bed. She sighed at this.

Orihime watched her curiously, wondering why she had come. Harribel turned to her then. "Tell me, Inoue, what do you think of our home? Please be honest." she asked.

"I-I think it's nice, though, I wish there was more sun shine then endless night." She said honestly.

"I agree. What of the food?"

"I don't much care for it."

"And what do you think of Ulquiorra?" she looked at her eyes.

Orihime just seemed to smile at this. "He's very kind. He acts as though he doesn't care but deep down, I feel he does."

Harribel nodded. "That is all I have come to find out." She turned to the door. "Inoue, at all cost…" she began, her voice stern as a mother's. "Don't allow the one to claim you to be Nnoitra." She left her alone once again.

Orihime sat down and tried to make sense of what happed. She sighed heavily. Harribel did seem concerned about her. Perhaps she should take her warning to heart. Harribel must know something she didn't. Was there more to Aizen's plan then what he led on?

She looked back down at the flowers. They had begun to wither. "I know your pain flowers." She said. "Like you, I have been taken from everything I have known and loved." She tightened her grip on them. "And my heart has begun to wither and soon…" she said in a silent whisper as a tear ran down her face. "…I will die."

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Grimmjow paced around his room. E couldn't get that human bitch out of his mind. It seemed the harder he tried the more he saw her. "Damn her!" he yelled. He sat on the ground like a cat. His face annoyed at how hard it was to forget her. She had accepted him when it took the others, his own kind, years to. The fact his hair was sky blue had drawn unnecessary attention. Szayel's hair was pink but they call it light red. His hair color could not be classified like that.

Yet, the way her hands moved in his hair… he brushed his hand through his hair. It wasn't the same. She was different. She wasn't the monsters that Aizen had made them out to be. He sighed heavily as he thought of her smiling face. He wished she would have smiled a lot more. He balled his fist. 'Damn Ulquiorra! He gets to spend so much time with her!' he thought.

He quickly drew his sword and held it to the intruder's neck. "What do you want Ulquiorra?" he asked.

"I just came to tell you that the Woman had gotten you a gift." He said in an annoyed tone.

Grimmjow looked up at him. "Sh-She did what?"

"I'm not going to repeat myself. She had gotten you a gift." He turned to the door. "If you want it, go get it from her." He said as he opened the door.

"Wait, where are you going?"

"Where do you think?"

Grimmjow placed his sword back in its sheath. He watched as Ulquiorra walked toward the human's room. A gift…for him? No one had ever gotten him anything before. He stood up masking his excitement with false annoyance. He couldn't wait to see what she had gotten him.