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The second story was made during Tanabata. And just like the title suggest, I used Tanabata theme to write out this story.
It was just a conservation between two people. No need much for description or narration at all. Because I'm actually bad at them.
Disclaimers: I do not own Bleach and their characters (definitely); they are all masterpieces from Kubo-sensei~
In this story, I randomly used italic word to describe the thought of the characters or maybe it just some strong feeling of characters I want to put in to that word.
WISH
Two beings were sitting side by side at the couch, one was a hollow, a Cuatro Espada to boots, and another was a helpless human girl.
Just like every night, they had a conversation to pass.
"Ne, Ulquiorra, do you know at my world they have a festival called Tanabata?"
"Hm!?" Ulquiorra was humming to answer while thinking about the definition of the keyword 'festival' in her question.
"In Tanabata, one would write a wish to each other. They hang those wishes on a bamboo."
"What's a wish, woman?"
"Eh? Ah... A wish is kind like a feel of hope or desire for something to someone. People make a wish and hope it comes true."
"Nonsense. How can a feeling like wish come true on it own? If I have time to wish for my desire, I could do it by myself."
"Yeah, there are some cases like that. What I mean is sometimes we wish for something when we could not be able to do it at all."
"And how could it come true?"
"Eh? Maybe there's a God guy could read those wishes and grant them for their sake."
"God? Someone is powerful like Aizen-sama?"
"Eh? No!! He would grant the wishes for people at his free choice, not by asking anything in return. And he's not like Aizen-sama."
How could Ulquiorra link everyone to Aizen?
"Hm..."
Ulquiorra thought there was no way they had a ridiculous God guy like that in the world. But he kept his thought to himself.
Sometimes Ulquiorra wondered if Orihime was an alien who was living outside the Earth or not because her fantasy and the reality were totally different on a whole level.
"So Ulquiorra, if you could make a wish, what wish do you make?"
So sudden, this girl always asked him something unexpected.
Ulquiorra kept silent for a long moment. So long, that Orihime had to called out his name one more time to wake him up from his silent thought.
"Ulquiorra!?"
"How about you?" He decided to lead this 'wish' topic toward her. At least, he could use hers for an example of what a wish was.
But her answer turned out not exactly good for him to base on.
"Eh? Me? I have a lot of wishes in the past... let's see I want to eat a whole ice-cream shop, I also want to eat a whole donut and cake shop, I want to travel around the world, I want to make friend with Walt Disney, I want to have wings to fly in the sky..."
Ulquiorra's eyes widened in surprise one more for her sudden blabbing.
Didn't she just ask his only one wish?
Well at least he could grant her last wish.
"But right now, all I could wish for is 'everyone could be happy'."
"That would be impossible." His voice sounded as cold as he could.
He did that every time he said the truth of what he thought inside to her.
Orihime smiled, a silly smile although her eyes didn't smile at all, "I know."
Upon catching at that sight, Ulquiorra turned his head to her and asked.
"What about me?"
"Eh?"
Orihime looked straight at him confusing at his question.
"What wish do you want to make for me?" He explained his question once more.
Now it was her turn to surprise because she didn't expect Ulquiorra would ask her that question.
His eyes though as emotionless as usual seemed like pleading for her answer too.
"If possible, I wish I could stay with you for a long time." She replied with a small smile.
Her face was loosen to the most gentle and happy expression that he had ever seen of her while her cheek was blessed with the color of cherry blossom.
If no one knew about what her current circumstance was in Hueco Mundo, they would never guess that she was a hostage and a prisoner here.
Ever since she got herself to here...
At this monochrome cage, she used her smile as much as she could so that she could to convince herself that she was still fine, that everything was still fine, to the point that Ulquiorra couldn't be help but staring her in the surface while showing his respect for her inside.
What a strong woman!
"I see." He said with his voice and face as dead-pan as usual.
After that, he said nothing but held a woman beside him tightly in his arm.
You don't have to wish for that because I will make it come true.
A wish was a nonsense thing.
Because in his vast knowledge and experience, there was no one could be able to grant his wish. Not even God. Not even Aizen-sama.
If a wish was for impossible thing, then there was the only one impossible thing in his mind that he wasn't sure if he could be able to do it.
He murmured.
"I just wish that you could always smile like that for me."
JinxJen's note:
Hi everyone, this is my 2nd oneshot or just a drabble or whatever you called it.
While I think I'm good at making dialogue, I'm not good at using words for narration and description after all.
So I think maybe from now on, most of my drabble fics will start from dialouge first and then I would update the narration later.
This story was made from a question I had at UlquiHime FC in BA. I really like Ulquiorra's thought about what a wish is.
