Ulquiorra stared at the bed mattress above him, he lay flat on his back with a blank stare. One could say he almost looked dead. Ulquiorra didn't know how long he'd been under there nor did he want to, his hand loosely held the arm of the headless toy and its head lay by Ulquiorra's hip. He wasn't even sure whether he was awake or whether he'd passed out and was just imagining laying there. He felt nothing but the pain and the dried tears on his cheeks irritating his pale skin.
He could smell Aizen cooking down stair he was so hungry, he knew he was but he didn't want to eat he didn't think he could. He'd occasionally hear Grimmjow and Aizen converse, the anger and hurt boiled through his body every time he herd that voice, he felt like clawing out his own ear canals just so he wouldn't hear it. Through his anger he'd already tried his ears were bleeding and blood trickled into his hair, but he didn't care it only made hearing harder that exactly what he wanted.
He'd also kicked and punched at the metal bed pole leaving his knees and feet bruised and his knuckles bleeding, still he didn't care, he'd rather concentrate on the pain he put himself threw then the pain Grimmjow had left in his stomach and his mind. He wondered how long he'd remain under here. Who'd find him Aizen? Grimmjow? He didn't them to find him, perhaps Gin? Gin didn't know Ulquiorra hit Grimmjow he wouldn't be mad at him. But then again he brought Grimmjow home so why would he care about Ulquiorra when he has a new child.
He wasn't stupid he knew some one would find him. It was who was going to find him and what would happen that scared Ulquiorra. The way things were at the moment no matter who found him Ulquiorra couldn't see it playing out well for him. There fore his only wish was that no one would find him that they'd just leave him alone, leave him with the pain and sorrow he felt knew instead of giving him more.
"Guys I'm home!" Gin said as he stepped through the door. Ulquiorra twitch as he herd Gin voice. He turned his head to look at his bedroom door, debating whether to greet Gin or not. He immediately decided no when he herd Grimmjow greeting him and giggling with Gin. But then again if Gin was home that meant tea was nearly ready. Ulquiorra couldn't go down stairs like this his shirt collar and sleeves where covered with blood and so was his neck and hands, he need to clean him up before anyone saw.
He crept into the bathroom and filled the sink with warm water and placed his hands in it. The boy flinched as the water stung his wound and pulled them back out staring at his throbbing knuckles. At least the wounds hard to see with out the blood Ulquiorra thought to himself as he look hold of a sponge and dipped it into the now pinkish water and press in against his sore ear and cleaned off the drying blood, occasionally dipping it back into the water. After that he emptied the sink and filled a washing basin with water and carried to his room.
There he removed his shirt and place it in the basin to soak and pulled on another shirt of the same colour and arm length hoping nobody would noticed he changed. He then pushed the basin under the bed and waited to be called for tea on his bed, his ears still stung from the water and he wondered whether he could cope with the noise that would be down stairs.
"Ulquiorra, your tea is ready!" Aizen called from the bottom of the stairs. "Coming." Ulquiorra replied as he hoped of his bed. Down stair everybody had already sat down and was waiting for him, Aizen thought it best if Ulquiorra didn't sit next to Grimmjow so Gin sat next to Grimmjow and Ulquiorra's seat was next to Aizen. But Gin still hadn't been told about what Ulquiorra had done so he didn't understand why they had to sit apart. Ulquiorra quietly sat in his seat and greeted Gin so that they could eat and he could go back to his room.
Every one began to eat Gin, Aizen and Grimmjow conversed Ulquiorra spaced in and out of the conversation no really wanting to join and only doing so when some one talked to him. He sat twiddling his fork in his food feeling sick at the idea of eating "Ulquiorra, you've barely touched your food, are you ok?" Gin asked, out of concern. "I- I'm fine." Ulquiorra replied as he forced a fork full passed his mouth and shuddered as he swallowed.
Grimmjow studies Ulquiorra as he ate and talked, it was almost impossible not to laugh at him. He looked so broken already, Grimmjow had barely even started make his life a misery and he was already the downhearted. Ulquiorra was way to fragile for his own good, at this rate Grimmjow wouldn't even have to try. Ulquiorra glance up at Grimmjow as he felt his eyes on him. Ulquiorra's eyes quickly retreated as Grimmjow glared at him. That pipsqueak doesn't have the rights to look at me Grimmjow thought as he took another mouthful of his food.
"Ow!" Grimmjow squeaked as he purposely jumped in his chair making it look like he'd been hurt. Ulquiorra looked up wondering what he was up to now. "What's wrong Grimm?" Gin asked. "Ulquiorra kicked me!"
"I did not!" Ulquiorra shouted back, which was the truth but from the way Ulquiorra had acted before Aizen easily believed Grimmjow. "Ulquiorra, I told you to hit your bother!" Gin sat in confusion, Ulquiorra wouldn't do such a thing, but from the way Aizen said it, it sounded like Ulquiorra already had. "But I didn't!" Grimmjow attempted to hide his smirk as Aizen demanded that Ulquiorra apologise to him and Ulquiorra continued to claim he didn't nearly braking into tears. "Ulquiorra say you sorry and we can forget bout this." Gin said in a gentle tone, Aizen was being to harsh there's no way Ulquiorra would do that would he?
"But...I, I" Ulquiorra couldn't take no more he began to cry as he ran back under his bed and continued to claw at is ear. He didn't want to hear them anymore, he didn't want to hear Grimmjow's lies and hurtful words, he didn't want to hear Aizen shouting anymore, nothing he wanted to hear nothing he wanted silence. Tear of pain streamed down his face as he whimpered. "Ulquiorra" Gin said as enter Ulquiorra's room, it didn't long from him to hear the boy crying under the bed, he bit his lip that sound was unbearable to hear.
He knelt down and looked under the bed. He could only see the back of Ulquiorra and from that and angle Gin couldn't see what Ulquiorra was doing to his ears it just looked like he was covering them to ignore Gin "Ulqui, do you want t come out and talk to me?" Gin softly asked the crying boy. "N-no." The boy weakly replied he was too scared of coming back out now his hands and neck was covered with blood again. "Can I come under there with you?"
"Y-you won't fit." Ulquiorra whimpered as he turned to face Gin knowing it was too dark under there for Gin to see the blood. "I will I lay down." Gin replied as he crawled under the bed and lay on his back and looked at Ulquiorra. "I, I didn't kick him." Gin's heart saddened the poor boy thought he was there to shout at him. "Ulqui, I don't care if you did. What's wrong darling?"
"You, you don't want me anymore." Ulquiorra said as he began crying again. "Aw... Hun, we still love you, we thought you where lonely all by your self in this big house, that's why we adopted him. Just because our family's a little bigger, doesn't mean we love you any less." Gin explained attempting to make his explanation as simple as possible. "So, so you still want me?"
"Of course we do!" Gin said as he stoked Ulquiorra's hair. He quickly pulled his n=hand back when he felt the warm dampness of it, it didn't fell like watery tears the liquid was thicker then that. He looked down at his hand to find it was smeared with blood, no, that's not possible, Ulquiorra's bleeding? Gin thought as he stared at his hand "Ulqui, no we've sorted that want to come out from under here?" Gin asked pretending like he hadn't noticed. Ulquiorra, who had forgotten at the moment, agreed and crawled out from under the bed with Gin. Gin pulled the boy into a hug and brushed his fingers though his hair, once again he pulled his hand away to reveal blood that had spilled from Ulquiorra's ears to his hand. Gin immediately pulled away from the hug and lifted Ulquiorra's hair off his ears.
Ulquiorra froze as the pain came back and he remembered what he'd done. "Daddy, I" Gin stared at Ulquiorra's shredded ears "Ul- Ulquiorra did, did you do this?" he asked praying the answer was, but then again dreading the answer no, because that meant some one else did it to him. Seeing no reason to hide the truth from Gin, Ulquiorra told him the truth shaking in fear.
Gin picked Ulquiorra up and unsteadily walked out the room and down the stair picking up this car keys. He didn't know what to say or think, just that his ears needed medical attention. He attempted to keep calm so not to worry Ulquiorra. "Gin where you are you going?" Aizen asked from behind them with a curious Grimmjow stood next to him. "I'm taking Ulquiorra to the hospital." He stated as he opened the door. "Why!"
"Because he's been clawing at his ears and they need medical attention."
"What?" Aizen questioned again, this wasn't registering in his head why would Ulquiorra do such a thing? "I don't have time to explain, I'll phone you later" Gin said as he left. "Is Ulquiorra gonna be ok?" Grimmjow asked pretending to be concerned. "He'll be fine" Aizen comforted him and himself with those words as he walked into the living room and collapsed into the nearest seat. How did he let that happen, it's because of what I did, I was too harsh on him he thought to himself as his eyes watered. Grimmjow crawled onto his lap and hugged him. Damn he didn't mean for Aizen and Gin to be affected by this.
Though it did mean he was defiantly getting to Ulquiorra already and that ruining Ulquiorra's life would be easy, if Ulquiorra was already doing things like this to himself. One the other hand Grimmjow couldn't help but feel slightly guilty about making Ulquiorra do that, Ulquiorra had been hurt by those men too. Did he really deserve this? "Trash!" That what he'd called Grimmjow, that what Ulquiorra must see him as, Grimmjow couldn't let him get away with that, Ulquiorra did deserve it in Grimmjow's mind.
Gin sat in the waiting room with Ulquiorra shaking in his lap. Well Gin didn't know whether it was Ulquiorra shaking or himself and when he said "It's ok." He didn't know whether he was telling Ulquiorra that or himself, he never thought Ulquiorra would ever do such a thing to himself. "Ulquiorra Sosuke?" The doctor called them in and Gin explain the situation as Ulquiorra sleepily sat on the hospital bed. "I see." The doctor said as she smiled at Ulquiorra "Now are you going to be a big boy and let me take a look?" Ulquiorra shakily nodded as she lifted his hair and examined his ear, whimpering when ever she touched them. "Ok I'm just going to clean, it will sting ok?"
"Ok." He squeaked, as she dabbed a cotton bud in a greenish liquid and rubbed his ears, Ulquiorra flinched with every wipe. The pain was worse then opening the wound, she lied, it didn't sting it killed and the pain still clenched on to his ears even after she'd finish. "Now because it's his ear we can put them in bandages it may affect his hearing, I'll need you to bath his ears every night, rub this into then every morning and before he goes to bed." She instructed Gin handing him a full bottle of that awful Green liquid, Gin agreed and carried Ulquiorra out the room as he was too tired and into much pain to walk himself.
The journey home was short and silent Ulquiorra fell asleep the car and when they got back Gin out him to bed and Aizen had already put Grimmjow in his. Gin explain how he'd found Ulquiorra under his bed and what the doctor had instructed them to do, he also told Aizen what Ulquiorra had said, which only lead to Aizen further believe that it was his fault and brake down into tears ad Gin held him.
Grimmjow lay in his bed listening to the man cry, he smirked. "Aw... Poor you." He whispered coldly, he was too happy to be sympathetic. Nobody suspected a thing, they presumed it was just Ulquiorra not being used to having a brother, they never once thought Grimmjow played any other part in driving Ulquiorra to claw his own ears. He let out a small giggle unable not to anymore, making Ulquiorra's life a living hell was going to be easy.
Sorry for the delay in my stories I've been have trouble writing recently, but anyway that was chapter 4 and don't worry there will eventually be romance. For anyone who reads my other GrimmUlqui storey (READ before you sign) the next chapter should be up soon and I've decide to write about Grimmy's night mares which will cover more then one chapter.