Onna
Chapter 6
Usually, when silence fell between two people it would eventually become awkward, which then led to someone breaking the quiet. Though, the hush that had fallen upon Orihime and Ulquiorra as the made their way to where Captain Kurotsuchi was didn't feel that way. The quiet between them wasn't so much of a suffocating noose as it was more of a lulling peace. Neither of them had anything they wished to say.
At least out loud anyway…
The corridors they traveled were filled with only the sound of the pair's footfalls; Orihime's slightly flatfooted slaps accompanied by her child companion's soft "heel-toe" clicks. "U… Ulquiorra?" The boy's head tilted slightly to look up at her, "Yes…?"
"I was just wondering, where exactly is Captain Kurotsuchi?" The two of them had been walking for quite sometime at that point, and Orihime was beginning to wonder if they were ever actually going to arrive before the officers' food went cold. "The place he has chosen for himself and his lieutenant is on the farthest regions of the human side of Los Noches." Ulquiorra replied with a slight "matter-of-fact" tone. "O-ok then…" She said, trying not to sound too deflated.
"It's just a little while farther, Onna."
There it was. That name again. Orihime couldn't help but falter a bit at actually hearing it come from the little boy. It had fallen off of his tongue so naturally. Like he hadn't thought twice about using it.
Just as it had whenever the real Ulquiorra had done so.
The numbing silence fell over them again. Only now it was somewhat uncomfortable for the both of them. The ginger headed girl couldn't help but stare at the boy as she tried to come up with something to say. The arrancar-child kept his eyes ahead, though he could feel her gaze burning into him.
Unable to stand it any longer, he turned to call her out on her staring when instead he said something different:
"It's tipping."
Orihime blinked.
"The plate."
With a gasp, she quickly elevated the food dish back to an even level.
Even with Ulquiorra there to help her carry the platters, she had nearly sloshed the food onto the floor.
"W-whoops! I guess I should have been paying more attention…" She laughed awkwardly. "Yes, you should have." The boy replied monotonously.
'You are so clumsy, Onna…'
Orihime knocked quietly on Captain Kurotsuchi's closed door, "Uhm… Sir… Captain Unohana sent us down with some food for you and your lieutenant since the two of you weren't able to attend lunch with us…"
Silence.
"Kurotsuchi…?" Ulquiorra called.
CRASH
Orihime jumped at the sound while Ulquiorra made an odd face at the closed door.
BLASH
"DAMMIT NEMU!"
SLASH
SLAM
BLAM
A little disturbed by the noises that were coming from the soul reapers' corroders, Orihime hesitantly knocked again. "S… Sir?"
Mayuri Kurotsuchi flung the door open, slinging obscenities even Ulquiorra internally cringed at.
And that was coming from the boy whose guardian was Grimmjow…
"WHAT IS SO IMPORTANT THAT YOU FELT THE NEED TO INTERRUPT ME WHILE I WAS IN THE PROCESS OF RESEARCHING?" He bellowed.
"We brought your food…!" The red headed girl squeaked. "Oh." The Officer said, relaxing a bit, "I'm starved." With that he promptly snatched the plate off of Orihime's hands and turned back to his room, "Nemu, you useless piece of garbage, go get your own food and shut the damn door."
The arrancar-child was highly tempted to dump the remaining plate in his hands unto the floor for the man's behavior. "Here, I will take that." Nemu stretched out her hands towards Ulquiorra's food. With a soft sigh, he let the female officer take her dish off of his hands. "Thank you both." She said softly before closing the door.
Frowning slightly, the boy was suddenly very grateful that he had gone along. Who knows what Mayuri was capable of had he got it in his head to assault the onna in any way…
'Yes, because a weakling arrancar boy could make a difference against a full fledged captain and his subordinate had they attacked…'
'I don't appreciate the sarcasm.'
Ulquiorra didn't exactly welcome someone dissing him.
Especially when it came from his own head.
He and Orihime went ahead and departed for the library, agreeing that they're comrades were most likely finished with their meals by now and had done the same.
"Oh! Over here Orihime, Ulquiorra." Rukia hollered from the top of a ladder leaning against a bookcase as the two entered the cavernous "library". Uryu nodded to the stacks of books they had categorized earlier, "We went ahead and started shelving without your two. Rukia and I have already started on the 'Technology and Research' section."
Orihime nodded, "I guess we should grab some books and get started ourselves, right Ulquiorra?" The little boy said nothing, but followed her lead and took a book from the stack.
"Huh?" Orihime flipped through the book she had just removed from the table herself. "…'Ceros, Bala, yoda loads maze'… What do ceros and bala have to do with Yoda loading a maze?" Even if the ginger headed girl said odd things at times, that was quite weird. All of them paused what they were doing to look at her. "Um, are you sure you're reading that right?" Rukia asked, raising an eyebrow. "Uh huh… I mean I think so. There's this funny little dot above the 'a' in 'maze' though…"
"Ceros, Bala, y todo lo demás?" Ulquiorra asked, finally relizing what she was trying to say. "Yeah, That's what it says on the front! 'Cero, Bala, y- what you just said." She comfirmed. Uryu rolled his eyes, "That's spanish, Orihime. Rukia and I also stumbled acrossed some other books like that." The onna made a soft "Oooh" noise before suddenly turning to Ulquiorra. "So you can read and speak spanish?" The excited glint in her eyes made the child faulter a bit before answering, "...Yes?"
With Grimmjow toting him around constantly, Ulquiorra almost had to know at least a bit of spanish to keep up with some of the blue haired man's conversations with fellow arrancars (A few of the people Grimmjow conversed with would fall in and out of english and spanish when they spoke {Even more so if they happened to be angery or drunk}).
Orihime shoved the book infront of him. "What does the title mean then?" Reluctantly, he informed them the book title's translation: Ceros, Bala, and Everything In Between.
"So then, I'm guessing that the book is probably about Ceros and such?" Rukia asked as she turned back to the shelf. "Yes, I'd assume so..." Ulquiorra replied.
They all slowly began to fall into a confortable silence.
Which was broken by the tear-streaked boy.
"Onna, what is a 'Yoda'?"
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I apologize if my spanish looks odd/is incorrect/doesn't flow properly or something, because I just looked it up on the internet (Google translate, ftw), and if there's any grammaticle/spelling errors anywhere below the spanish part, it's because my junky computer stopped letting me use Spell Chack after I put the other language in... -_-#
Even though I did go over it, there may be some spelling errors or junk in there...
anyways, As said before~
R&R