Ulquiorra walked down the always white hallways to his quarters. He was more than annoyed he had ever been before. He had been determined to, when he arrived at Orihime's room, stuff every single bit of food left on her tray down her throat. However about halfway through the force feed he had gotten angry, though he didn't show it, that he had to keep putting food in her mouth and making her swallow it. He finally decided to stop. He walked out leaving her to crawl back to her bed coughing.
Orihime twitched and let out a small whine when she touched the corner of her mouth, now torn by Ulquiorra's force feed. She understood why it happened. He was always threatening to do it if she didn't eat. What surprised her most was that he actually did it. He had threatened to do it, but he never followed through. That led her to thing he might not do it ever….she was wrong.
"Oi, Ulquiorra...ULQUIORRA!"
Why now of all times did Grimmjow have to try to talk with him, Ulquiorra wondered.
"Grimmjow", Ulquiorra said impatience dripping off of every word, "I am in no mood for your stupidity."
Grimmjow stared at Ulquiorra until Ulquiorra said, "what?"
"When are you ever in a mood?", Grimmjow asked with heavy sarcasm.
Ulquiorra turned and walked back toward Orihime's room, Grimmjow on his heels all the way.
Orihime stared at Grimmjow with a somewhat dumbfounded expression. Grimmjow noticing said, "Hey, what you staring at?"
Orihime knew she was probably going to piss off the blue-haired arrancar, but she couldn't help but say, "Your teeth." She knew almost immediately she was right. Grimmjow was now only inches away from her face about to cuss her out when he noticed something interesting.
"Hey, Ulquiorra why does she have cuts on her face?" Grimmjow asked as he raised Orihime's chin to get a better look.
Ulquiorra walked over and took her chin roughly from Grimmjow. He stared at her face for a moment before he said, "woman, when did this happen?"
"Umm", Orihime was having trouble getting the words out with his jade eyes drilling into her. "Umm…it happened when you forced my food down my throat…"she averted her eyes when she saw his eyes harden. In the background she heard Grimmjow laughing.
"Geez Ulquiorra, what are you doing to her?" he let out another chuckle.
"Hey girl", Grimmjow continued, "why don't you heal those cuts?" he didn't anticipate her answer in the slightest.
"Because", Orihime said looking timidly at Ulquiorra, his eyes now closed, "he-Ulquiorra-sama said not to use my powers unless Aizen-sama required them."
"Damn Ulquiorra, you have a mean streak in ya huh?" Grimmjow said running his hand through his hair.
"Grimmjow," Ulquiorra whispered as he finally opened his eyes to glare at the blue-haired arrancar, "leave the room now."
Grimmjow chuckled and turned around. He walked out waving over his shoulder saying, "Sure, sure I'll leave you two to work out your differences", and with that he walked out with his chuckles turning into full blown laughter.
Orihime, who had been staring at Grimmjow jumped at Ulquiorra's voice.
"Woman, why did you not heal yourself?", the glint in his eyes seemed to have gone away. How odd.
"Because you to-", Orihime seeing his eyes narrow just a tiny bit rephrased herself, "because if I didn't you might not try to shove more food down my throat." His jade eyes holding something other than annoyance for once. The look was so unlike Ulquiorra that she had to look away, a little color coming to her face.
Ulquiorra let go of her chin finally and walked over to the door. However before he left he said, without turning around, "Woman, heal those cuts. I can't have you hurt." And with that he left.
Orihime sat down. Was he really worried about her? The thought brought another blush to her cheeks. That went away fast though. Of course he wasn't really worried he was just checking for Aizen-sama. The thought made her, as odd as it seemed, sad. Why?