Chapter one
Orihime was walking to school on a bright and cheery morning. Today was the first day of school and she was really excited to be able to see her old friends again. Orihime hadn't seen any of her friends over the summer except for Tatsuki. They had fun together; Tatsuki now knew about hollows and would even make fun of them occasionally.
After Tatsuki had found out about hollows with the help of Urahara Kisuke, Tatsuki had been using Ichigo as her personal punching bag for a week until she got over her anger. After she stopped punching him, she would still give him death glares. She even helps Isshin, Ichigo's dad, with making new ways for him to wake up his son and give him sneak attacks.
Orihime spotted a familiar orange-haired friend and started running to catch up to him. He was currently trying to pry his dad off of his back, the plan courtesy of Tatsuki. Orihime laughed softly as she watched Ichigo battle with his dad.
"Hello Ichigo!" Orihime cried out to him giddily. Ichigo turned around and spotted the auburn-haired girl for the first time for the whole summer break. Ichigo knew something was wrong when his dad suddenly jumped off his back.
Isshin ran up to Orihime, kneeled down on one knee and kissed her hand.
"Why hello there, lovely lady!" Isshin said happily. Ichigo smacked the back of Isshin's head with his school bag.
"Dad! Stop hitting on Orihime!" Ichigo yelled at his father as soon as he stopped hitting Isshin's head.
Orihime had finally arrived at school successfully. She hadn't been molested by Chizuru yet, none of the girls complained about her being prettier than they were, None of the guys had hit on her….besides Ichigo's dad….Also, she had met up with Tatsuki and they caught up on anything they hadn't shared with each other yet over summer break.
Orihime now sat at her desk watching late students pouring in through the door, obviously in a rush to sit down. The teacher had already begun her lesson and was looking irritated that the late students were interrupting her.
Orihime's point of view
The teacher stopped abruptly and turned torwards the door with a grin starting to grow. There was a raven-haired boy and a blue-haired boy standing at the door. The teacher motioned them in and then turned torwards us, a grin still on her face.
"Class, we have two new students today and I want you all to be nice to them." She then turned back torwards them again. "Why don't you introduce yourselves to the class?" She walked over to the platform while the boys stayed where they were.
The raven-haired boy's lips moved but I couldn't hear any words come out of them. I leaned over to Tatsuki and asked her what he had said.
"Weren't you listening? He said that his name was Ulquiorra Schiffer" Tatsuki replied unalarmed by her question. She was used to Orihime spacing out.
I leaned back into my chair as I thought about the boy's name. I was sure that I have heard the name somewhere before, but couldn't quite place where I had heard it from. The teacher then broke my train of thought.
"So Ulquiorra, how about you tell us a little about yourself?" I smiled at the teacher's question/order maybe she could figure out who he was if he told everyone about himself.
I saw him looked puzzled at the teacher. "Tell you about myself?" he asked her.
"Yeah, like what are your hobbies, what your favorite color is, what your favorite subject is, what your favorite animal is etcetera." The teacher replied with confidence. The boy didn't answer right away and stared blankly at her.
"My favorite color is green and my favorite animal is the bat." He answered smoothly. Before the teacher could ask him more questions, he asked her something else. "Where can I sit?" The teacher pointed to the desk next to Orihime.
The teacher turned torwards the blue-haired boy and was about to ask him what his name was but was beaten to it.
"My name is Grimmjow Jaggerjaques, my favorite color is blue, my favorite subject is lunch,-I perked up at the lunch part and continued listening- my favorite animal is the panther." He then smiled a huge grin, as he looked at all of the girls. "Oh, and my hobby is fighting" Grimmjow added. I saw Tatsuki suddenly sit up straight at the last part and I saw her smile an evil grin.
Great, Tatsuki plans on fighting the new kid. He looked really strong, but then so is Tatsuki…..I looked over at the teacher which was pointing to a seat next to….oh man! The teacher was planning on seating Grimmjow next to Tatsuki. This is going to be really bad. When I say bad, I mean horrible. Tatsuki will go crazy if the new kid won't agree with her to fight. Eventually, she'll attack him and force him to fight back.
I looked over to Ulquiorra; he must have been staring at me because he turned his head back to the teacher. I know that he should be the one blushing, but I felt my cheeks start to heat up. I also noticed that all of the girls, excluding Tatsuki and Chizuru, were staring at Ulquiorra. They must have noticed his dark and mysterious aura.
I turned to look at Ichigo who was sitting in front of me. You see, I'm like in a sandwich. Ichigo is in front of me, Tatsuki is on the left side of me, Ulquiorra is on the right side of me. Grimmjow was next to Tatsuki. Ichigo would occasionally glance at Grimmjow and Ulquiorra.
Maybe Ichigo thought he had seen them before too. I'll ask him later. I looked up to the teacher explaining something about math.
Ulquiorra's point of view
I knew I had seen the auburn-haired girl before but I don't know where. I think I had also seen the boy with orange hair. They both looked very familiar to me but I can't remember and it's so frustrating. I'll ask the girl her name at lunch.
I kept looking back at her to see if some memory would pop up and remind me of who she is, but none came. Every time I looked back at her, she caught me looking at her. It became annoying so I stopped turning around for this period.
I pretended to listen to the teacher while I really listened to hear what Grimmjow was talking about. He was talking with the girl he was sitting next to. He was talking about fighting her after school. If he hurts her too bad, he'll get suspended or even expelled. Their conversation wasn't worth listening to right now.
Ulquiorra was just going to pull out a book and his mp3 player, but the teacher said something that caught his attention.
"Class, for homework today I want you all to get with a partner which I will be choosing. You will come up with a fantasy land that you all want to visit or have made up. You can either write a story or make a 3-D model."
The teacher then started pointing out the partners. Ulquiorra was paying full attention; he could probably remember all of the pairs if he wanted to. He was given partnership with the girl sitting next to him.
I wonder who Grimmjow will get….and if he won't try to hurt them when he does….. Thought Ulquiorra.
"Tatsuki Arisawa and Grimmjow Jaggerjaques, you two are going to be partners" The teacher moved on to the guy he had been curious about.
"Ichigo and Rukia, you two are partners" Ulquiorra knew the orange head was Ichigo because he heard a groan come from him. Then again, almost everyone was groaning because of who they were partnered with.
Ichigo huh, that name actually fits him…considering his hair color…..Ulquiorra drifted his thoughts to what he was going to do for the homework assignment when the teacher interrupted his thoughts again.
"These homework assignments will be due a week from today" ring ring. The bell rang and everyone was starting to rush out of the classroom for lunch. Ulquiorra and Grimmjow hadn't brought a lunch today, due to trying to kill each other.
Flash Back…….
"Ulquiorra, Grimmjow! Time to get up!" Their mother yelled. She could be really cool at times…..but this wasn't one of those times.
Her name was Asteriyanna*. She was very young for a mother but she was very loving and caring. She was our mother.
"If you two don't wake up right now, I'll have to get violent!" She also enjoyed violence…That's where Grimmjow got his violent nature.
Asteriyanna came marching into Grimmjow's room first. His room was a light blue, not a baby blue but a light one. He had a built in bathroom which was white. He also had a dresser that was a night blue. He had a walk in closet, but he didn't use it much. He had a four-poster bed with a black comforter and light blue pillows. He also had a flat screen TV on the opposite wall that his bed was leaning against. He had video games and an X-Box 360, Playstation 3, Wii, PSP, and that was pretty much it.
Grimmjow was hanging off the bed, a slimy trail of drool was on his chin, dripping onto a wet puddle on the floor. Asteriyanna smacked his head for him to wake up. She was then smacked into the wall by his foot. She huffed angrily although she was used to these morning battles. She stood up and rolled up her sleeves. She ran out of the room, bounding down the stairs and into the kitchen. She went over to the sink where there was a clay vase which held her wooden spoons. She took the biggest spoon out and grinned evilly.
Asteriyanna was already in Grimmjow's room. She crept up silently to his sleeping figure, raising the spoon high above her head……she brought the spoon down with extra force and smacked Grimmjow's butt really hard with the spoon like she used to when he wouldn't wake up right away. Grimmjow yelped and literally leaped out of his bed and fell on the floor.
"Get ready for school" Asteriyanna walked out of the room. "Next up is Ulquiorra….." Asteriyanna sighed. Ulquiorra was usually the good one. She opened his door and walked in. Ulquiorra was already up and had a shirt half way on his body. He stood there frozen, wondering why his mother was standing above him with a spoon like she was ready to whack him.
"Okay…….." Asteriyanna said awkwardly. "Guess you're already up……I'll leave now." She slowly backed out of the room with a goofy and awkward grin on her face. She bounded down the stairs again to prepare the boy's breakfast and their lunch.
Ulquiorra buttoned the last button on his shirt and walked into his bathroom. His room looked identical to Grimmjow's room except for colors and items. Ulquiorra had black walls-even his bathroom. His bed was already made. The comforter was emerald- green and the pillows were black. He also had a flat screen TV on the opposite wall, but he didn't have any video games to go with it. Instead he had a collection of horror movies, anime series, and manga. He didn't have a dresser; he preferred to use his walk-in closet. He had a desk and a laptop on it, along with his drawings and poems.
Ulquiorra grabbed his toothpaste and squirted it onto his blue toothbrush. He knew Grimmjow had taken the green one just to piss him off but he didn't mind the color, just as long as he can still brush his teeth with it and Grimmjow hadn't dunked it in the toilet like last time.
You see, their mother would go out and pick their toothbrushes and stuff like that for them. Grimmjow picked the green one to piss him off. It worked but he didn't show it. That would only prove to Grimmjow that he was capable of showing his feelings to people. He wanted to prove Grimmjow wrong.
Ulquiorra was done brushing his teeth now, so he turned the faucet back on and rinsed off his toothbrush. He set it back in the black and checkered green cup. He spit the saliva and toothpaste liquid into the sink and watched as it was sucked into the drain.
Ulquiorra glanced at his alarm clock which was supposed to go off that morning. Instead of waking to his alarm clock, he woke to the fighting of Grimmjow and his mother. It said 7:45. That means it's almost time for school. He ran over to his black schoolbag and looked in it to make sure everything he needed was in it. He zipped the zipper on it, grabbed both his room keys and the house keys and his wallet. The wallet was a simple black leather wallet which contained fifty bucks worth of allowance in it.
He and Grimmjow went running down the stairs. That was when the fight started. Grimmjow must of have been mad that he got whipped with a spoon and not Ulquiorra. Grimmjow smiled an evil grin and pushed Ulquiorra over the railing where he dropped ten feet below from where he was standing. Ulquiorra had then suddenly felt like he wanted to blast his brother's head off with his finger but he didn't know how he could. He had probably been watching too many gory anime shows again.
"Ha! Serves you right for waking up on time!" Grimmjow roared at Ulquiorra. Okay, so he was pissed that he had woke up on time.
"Yeah well maybe if you actually used your alarm clock then you would wake up on time and wouldn't be whipped." Ulquiorra replied easily.
Grimmjow snorted at his brother angrily for he did not know what he should comeback him with. 'Stupid comebacks' Grimmjow thought. 'They're always so complicated especially when you don't know how to reply to your smart-aleck brother'
"Come on! Hurry up you two! If you don't want to be late then get going! I won't drive you to school if you get stuck here!" Asteriyanna yelled to them. With that said, she walked out of the great hall. Usually, you think someone would get lost in their huge mansion and you'd think it was spooky but it wasn't. To be honest it looked really friendly excluding Ulquiorra's and Grimmjow's bedrooms and bathrooms.
Ulquiorra was already on his feet and was walking to the door when Grimmjow was swinging his arm back to land a punch on Ulquiorra. Ulquiorra saw this one coming and easily caught his fist in his hand. Ulquiorra quickly hit the back of Grimmjow's neck, the exact spot where his pressure point was. Grimmjow dropped to the ground, his eyes wide in shock. He couldn't move right now because the attack had paralyzed him. He would be up and angry in ten minutes so Ulquiorra took the chance and burst out the door to start his walk to school. Ulquiorra was almost to the school door……when he suddenly got a blow on his left side of his back. Ulquiorra turned around unharmed and saw a surprised Grimmjow. Of course, it was just Grimmjow trying to get his revenge.
End Flash Back…..
Ulquiorra walked up to Orihime and asked her what her name was.
"Orihime. Orihime Inoue" Orihime replied cheerily.
"You're name is Ulquiorra, right?" She asked warily. Ulquiorra nodded.
"Isn't that Spanish?" She asked again. Ulquiorra nodded again surprised she knew Spanish.
"He who cries….huh" Orihime mumbled to herself. Ulquiorra heard her though.
Orihime thought that it was really weird for someone to have that name since he rarely shows any emotion, from what she has seen so far.
"So…um what do you want to do for the project? A story or a 3-D model?" Orihime asked Ulquiorra.
Ulquiorra suddenly grabbed his head and, with the other hand grabbed a desk to keep him up. Some kind of vision came to him.
Vision….
Ulquiorra looked different; he was standing in a white desert with few trees. The trees looked withered and dead. He had a weird outfit on and a weird helmet looking thing. The sky was grey-ish looking and had a moon up. There was a girl next to him. She was about the same age and had auburn colored hair, fleshy skin, and an outfit kind of like the one he had on. The only noticeable color that was on her was the natural blush on her face, the color of her hair, and her blue hairpins.
Vision End….
Ulquiorra stood up-right again and looked at Orihime's worried and frightened face…he knew he had seen that face somewhere….
"Are you alright?" She asked him. People including Grimmjow, Tatsuki, Ichigo, and Rukia were crowding around him and Orihime.
"I'm fine" He answered bluntly. He turned to leave but someone grabbed his wrist to hold him back. He turned around as he saw Orihime glare at him sternly. She then smiled and said, "Do you want to eat lunch with me?" She asked him.
"I forgot my lunch at home" Ulquiorra answered. Just then, Keigo butted in and started yelling at Ulquiorra.
"How dare you! When Orihime asks someone to lunch, especially a boy, it means something!" Keigo yelled at him.
"Uh….Keigo, its okay I just wanted to talk about the project is all." Orihime said nervously, but emphasized the "project" in her voice. Okay, that means she knows what happened.
Ulquiorra and Orihime were now sitting outside sitting under a cherry tree's shade. Orihime was nibbling on her peanut butter , red bean paste, mayonnaise, cheese, lettuce, and honey with extra wasabi sandwich. Ulquiorra had his head turned, trying to comprehend what that vision was supposed to mean if it meant anything at all.
"So that vision-you saw it too, didn't you?" Orihime suddenly blurted out. She then covered her mouth with her hand.
"I-I'm sorry! I wasn't trying to be rude, but I just had to ask and all so…..yeah" When she was finished talking Ulquiorra answered her question, well more like a demand.
"Yes, I assume you saw it too?" Ulquiorra mentally smacked his head. Of course she saw it stupid; she wouldn't have asked if she hadn't……gosh! Ulquiorra thought to himself.
"I want to make a 3-D model of that place we saw, Ulquiorra. Is that alright with you?" Orihime asked/told him.
"Yes, I wanted to do the same." He said.
"Great!" Orihime exclaimed excitedly. "Whose place do you want to go to so we can work on the project? Mine or yours?" She asked.
Ulquiorra thought about this for a moment. He didn't want to go to her place because Grimmjow will make fun of him about having a girlfriend. He wasn't worried about his mom doing that, she was cool enough and gave him his privacy. Then again, if he chose his place, Grimmjow would embarrass him and annoy them while they were working. His mom again would give him his privacy. She would probably ask if they wanted anything to eat, but that was about it.
"Let's work on the project at my house." Ulquiorra finally decided. He was just going to have to risk Grimmjow.
"Okay!" Orihime said. She continued to nibble on her sandwich while Ulquiorra watched her.
"Do want anything?" Orihime asked Ulquiorra while she opened her lunch box to show Ulquiorra what was in there.
"No thank-you." Ulquiorra said, mentally disgusted. He respected her eating styles so he didn't want to eat something, and then get sick later and be rude.
"Awwww….Everyone always says that!" Orihime whined. Ulquiorra guiltily forced his head away.
*Asteriyanna means: Beautiful star flower Pronounced like (Don't mind my language and don't ask..hehe…) "Ass-tear-re-ya-nana" Asteriyanna
So how did you guys like the first chapter of my new story? I hope you liked it! I worked really hard on it! Please review! The more you guys review, the quicker I can update new chapters! Thank-you!:D Also, I thought Ulquiorra should act more teenage-like in this story because I felt like giving Ulquiorra a personality. Please review! If anyone wants to see a hand-drawn picture of Ulquiorra in a school uniform, let me know so I can try to e-mail it to you. If you don't trust me, fine your loss.
-MiloMaxwell