Thanks for reading this story!

The 3rd story was inspired when I was listenning to Bleach Radio B Station for the interview between Ulquiorra's seiyuu and Orihime's seiyuu.

Disclaimers: I do not own Bleach and their characters (definitely); they are all masterpieces from Kubo-sensei~

I also 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.


HARMONICA

In front of the white marble door, Ulquiorra suddenly heard a strange sound coming from Orihime's cell.

What was that distrurbing sound?

Was that a song? It didn't sound like the woman's voice.

Was that from an instrument? But there was nothing like that in Las Noches.

Upon hearing the sound, Ulquiorra silently pushed the hard door and got inside.

The woman, whose back was facing him and face was facing the moon upon the window's cage, was still busy in doing something.

She hadn't realized his presence until he made his announcement.

"What's this sound, woman?"

She was startled by his voice. She suddenly turned her head around and said with her bewildered voice.

Her face was a bit flushed. Was she embarrassed?

"AHH, Ulquiorra, since when...?"

The sound stopped.

"Just now, you should have used to it already. Are you the one who made this disturbing sound?"

"Yes. I'm sorry, because I'm bored and there's nothing to do besides..."

"How can you make a sound like this?" Ulquiorra cut down before she could finish her sentence.

There was something she hid behind her back.

"EH? Ah... By this."

She put the foreign object forward toward him and didn't explain anything as if it was natural.

"What's this?"

Ulquiorra asked and stared at a strange white rectangular-shaped thing with a lot of holes inside in Orihime's hand...

"It is a harmonica. Ulquiorra, you didn't know it!"

"There's no thing called like that in Las Noches."

"Do you want to play?"

For that question, Ulquiorra's eyes were widened in surprise though his face was still emotionless.

He still stared at her when she showed Ulquiorra the rectangular tube.

Finally, he asked, doubtfully, "How do I play it?"

"You put that near your lip and blow air into it over the holes. And then your fingers will tip and tap some holes. The pressure will cause them vibrate up and down and create a sound. Just like this."

Orihime demonstrated how to play to Ulquiorra, but the sound she made was awkwardly odd to hear. The tune was off, it seemed.

"I know that I'm not good at playing, but at least I could hear some sound from this or else I would go insane to stay in this quiet place."

"Where did you get this?"

"Eh, I brought them from my home. I think I could at least play a nice song for Aizen-sama and he would let me go back."

Naivety. Ulquiorra thought.

How far could her vivid imagination go?

I doubt that disturbing sound she created would only make Aizen-sama keep her inside more, rather than let her go outside.

Still, I would keep that thought inside.

"So Ulquiorra, how about you play it for me?"

Ulquiorra's eyes widen one more. Why did this woman always ask him something unbelievable?

I, Cuatro Espada, played music. If Grimmjow knew, he would laugh until his stomach fell out. Ah, it was already a hole anyway.

"I'm not your musician, woman. And I'm not here to entertain you."

"Are you afraid that you would make a bad sound?"

What? There was no way I would be afraid of something disturbing like that. Who did she think I was?

Provoked by an innocent Orihime, Ulquiorra grabbed the harmonica and put it near his lips awkwardly. Oddly, the sound he made turned out pretty nice to hear.

"UWUA! Ulquiorra, you're so good. It sounds nice to hear. You have a talent. You must be a musician in your human life."

Orihime's eyes became bigger as she was full of surprise and happy to hear a nice song coming from Ulquiorra and her harmonica.

On the other side, Ulquiorra was struck by a smile as bright as the sun she made when he played the instrument.

Maybe harmonica wasn't bad after all.


JinxJen's note:

I was using dialouges as usual. Though there are some narrator lines too.

In that interview, Orihime's seiyuu who was in her character told Ichigo's seiyuu that she was going to Ulquiorra XD I was laughing out loud at their shippy.

And Ichigo's seiyuu told her that she should bring a harmonica because there was nothing to do in Las Noches and Orihime's seiyuu took his advise.

So that's why the story became like that. It was so fun to image how Ulquiorra plays harmonica.