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If I owned bleach, Grimnel and renruki would be canon...

CHAPTER 11

Orihime closes the door to her room and sits down on the floor, crossing her arms and placing them on the couch. She rests her head on her arms and slowly blanks out as she recalls Anónimo's memory that somehow made it into her head. Now that she thinks about it, it was more like an out-of-body experience, rather than a real memory. Like as if aliens had taken her out, stuck another consciousness into her body, and she was just watching. Orihime continues musing to herself when her eyebrows knit together. Nani?

Suddenly, she feels a dark, coarse rieatsu rip through the air around her, causing the hairs on Orihime's arm to stand up. Jolting upwards, her eyes widen as the familiarity registers with her. "Kurosaki-kun?" Orihime breathes hesitantly, trying in vain to grasp at the last of the reiatsu before it disappears into the air. Behind her, the door clicks open. She stands up and turns towards the door. "Minho-kun…" She starts, then freezes as two eyes peek through the crack between the door and the wall.

"Looky looky, see? Our little princess is all alone." The dark haired arrancar says in a lilting tone. Behind her, the arrancar with dirty blonde hair smirks quietly. A cold feeling runs down Orihime's spine as memories of the same arrancar sneering cruelly at her flash through her mind. Subconsiously, she stands and takes the fighting stance that Grimmjow had shown her, raising her hands hesitantly. Her two visitors take no notice.

"O-ri-hi-me-chaaan. Can we come and plaaay~?" Loly asks in a tone that would be normally used when addressing a little child.

"What are you doing here?" Orihime asks quietly. "You're not supposed to be here."

Loly tosses her head, flipping one of her pigtails over one shoulder. "That's a good question, pequeña mascot, what in Aizen-sama's name could we be doing here?" She says in a playful tone, casually tapping a finger against her bottom lip. Under normal circumstances, it'd look cute, but her sadistic smirk and steely eyes said otherwise.

Orihime tightens her fists and raises her hands up a touch higher as the other girl stalks towards her. "If you have no business here, I'd like to ask you to leave." She says quietly.

Loly's eyebrows shoot upwards, and she shares a look with Melony. "Oh? Pequeña mascot has the spunk to talk back to us? How cute!" the last phrase turns into a snarl as she lashes out at Orihime.

The human girl's eyes widen, and she instinctively ducks, Grimmjow's training kicking in. Loly's eyes widen in shock, and Orihime seizes the opportunity to throw an uppercut at her chin. Hissing angrily Loly grabs Orihime's wrist just before her fist can connect to her face. Orihime's mouth drops open in horror, and Loly's smirk breaks out into a maniacal grin.

Cackling madly, she effortlessly throws Orihime to the floor. Orihime feels her head snap backwards and for a second she sees stars as pain stabs through her head. Loly saunters over as she struggles to stand up. Challengingly, the dark haired girl arches an eyebrow as Orihime makes it onto her feet. Again, Loly swipes at her, and this time Orihime catches it against the left side of her face as she tries to dodge it. Pivoting on her back foot she tries to land a roundhouse kick to Loly's side when her knee rises up and catches her right in the gut. Orihime feels the impact blow through her, and before she can even react, Loly punches her away. Orihime crashes into the cylindrical table on the other side of the room, and coughs violently as blood trickles down her lip.

"Ha! Serves you right!" She screeches in delight, grabbing a fistful of the human's hair, dragging her up onto her feet. "There's no way you can beat an arrancar with mere human strength!"

Orihime doesn't respond, but stares at her in quiet defiance. Gomen nii-san. So much for those defense lessons… Loly flinches under her gaze, and her lip curls up angrily. "You. What the hell is that look for?!" She shouts angrily, punching Orihime across her face viciously.

Melony- who had been standing quietly on guard up until now- 'tsk's . "Hey. Could you do this a little more quietly?"

"Urusai!" Loly snaps, then turns back to Orihime as a delighted look of revelation lights up her face. "Yes! I know! Let's tear out all your finger nails!"

"Hey, Loly…"

THWOOMN

"Wha-?!"

"What the…?!"

Orihime blinks slowly, the multiple blows to her head causing her to feel groggy. Slowly, her vision comes into better focus as the dust dies down from the explosion.

Loly and Melony's faces are twin expressions of horror when a tall and muscular figure emerges from the smoke, wearing an open jacket with the sleeves rolled up to its elbows.

"Gri…Grimmjow!"

The blue-haired arrancar doesn't say a word as he walks towards them.

"O…nii…san."

Three pairs of eyes lock onto Orihime, who can't help but smile at the sight of one of the people she had missed the most since being sent off into isolation. "Gomen ne…I guess, I'm not as good as you thought…at fighting."

Grimmjow's originally indifferent expression shatters as he takes in the bruises and scrapes on Orihime's face and immediately connects them to Loly's hands that are still knotted in her hair.

"W-what's with you?!" She finally demands, unconsciously taking a step away from the Espada who is closing in on her. "And just what the hell are you do-"

Grimmjow delivers a kick that sends Loly flying backwards, landing heavily on the floor. She looks up for a split second before she starts coughing violently.

"Grimmjow!" Melony shrieks angrily, charging him and throwing a punch at his back. Easily, Grimmjow catches her fist.

"Kisama…" He snarls angrily, tightening his grip around the petrified arrancar's fist. "How dare you touch our imouto." He says as his hand glows a blood red before discharging a cero that completely obliterates Melony. Then he turns to Orihime, who looks down at her feet.

"Onii-san." She starts when an angry, but choked hiss comes from Loly.

"A-Aizen-sama…won't stay quiet about you doing this stuff to us you know." She growls weakly, raising her head from the small pool of stomach fluids that she had coughed. "The likes of you…" Grimmjow doesn't say a word, but simply grabs Loly's ankle, and raises her leg up off the ground. Loly's eyes lock onto his hand. "Hey. Hold on, what are you…Hey!" She shouts, her eyes widening in fear as the Sexta plants his foot against the back of her knee. "Hey! Cut it out! No! Stop! Stop!" Loly's shouts turn to screeches as the tries to wriggle away in vain.

Without turning around, Grimmjow tightens his grip around Loly's ankle. "Don't look."

Orihime turns around just before the sickening snap, and the inhuman scream that echoes eerily off the walls of the room.

"I'll kill you! You're-You're gonna get killed! By Aizen-sama!" Loly screams, but the fear in her eyes does little to justify the harsh words that come out of her mouth.

Grimmjow glares at her coldly. "Yariman…as if he'd do anything like that for you. Besides. That teme doesn't give two fucks about what happens to us."

Orihime blinks as Grimmjow walks towards her, his expression unreadable. "Onii-san…"

Grimmjow reaches out to her…and punches the top of her head.

"I-itai!" Orihime grabs her head in surprise and pain, as she stares at him incredulously. "What was that for?"

"Hime you idiot! Forget when you passed out on us, this has got to be the worst thing that you could've done, where the hell were you?!" Grimmjow roars angrily, bending down so that he can get into her face. "Halibel, Emo-spada and I have been going crazy looking for you! Lilynette was in tears when she realized that you're reiatsu disappeared! Starrk had a freaking field day trying to calm her down! God damnit, Tesra wouldn't shut up about it! Though I can't believe that he'd be stupid enough to bring that up around Ulquiorra, the bastard." He ends with a growl. "Damn that fourth Espada, and his 'nilisism'. A rock hime." Grimmjow gives Orihime a glare with such killing intent that she's tempted to call out her Shun Shun Rikka shield. "He. Turned. Back. Into. An. Emo. Frigging. Rock."

"Who are you talking about?"

Grimmjow's mouth opens to continue his rant, when he abruptly closes it. No one. Forget it." He takes her hand and sets her onto her feet. "Whatever. I didn't come here just to play 'hero'. I need you to do me a favour Hime…"

Orihime blinks, then a lightbulb goes off in her head. "C-Chotto!" She whirls around and kneels beside Loly. Without saying a word, Ayame and Lily break off and the familiar golden dome erects itself around Loly's ripped off leg.

Loly glares at her in disbelief, "What the Hell are you doing?!" She shouts, her voice lacking the bravado it had when she had first threatened her. "Get your hands off of me." Loly punches Orihime again across the face, but freezes when Grimmjow appears out of thin air and grabs her hair roughly.

"Be greatful brat." He snarls angrily. "For the life of me, I don't get her but whether you like it or not, you're indebt hag." Loly sneers, but Grimmjow twists her head to the side. Loly's about to snap another insult when she sees her leg reattaching itself to the stump of her thigh.

"…No way…Impossible…"

Orihime doesn't say a word, and gets up. Walking towards Melony, she leaves the two other arrancar in silence. Once in quiet disapproval and the other in quiet horror as Melony's corpse-organs and all-reconstruct themselves before their eyes.

"Hold on a second…" Orihime finally says, breaking the silence. She turns towards Grimmjow and walks out of the room. "There's one more person I need to go to first."

The Espada grunts and follows her out of the room. Knocking softly before she enters, she crouches in front of Jonghyung. "Hello Jjong-kun." She says lightly. "I know that you probably can't hear me really, but I just wanted to let you know that I'm going to go away with Grimmjow-niisan, okay?" as she's talking to him, the golden dome erects itself around him.

"What are you doing?" Grimmjow asks quietly from behind her, and Orihime can hear the caution and slight revulsion in his voice.

Orihime's eyebrows furrow and the corner of her lips tilt down into a determined frown. "Well…If Aizen's theory is right…that I can reject anything…I could heal Jonghyung-kun."

Just as she finishes the sentence, two pale blue pupils appear in the whites of the young arrancar's eyes.

"Nee-sama…" The word single word leaves Jonghyung's lips before his eyes roll up into his head, and he falls over.

"Rest up Jjong-kun. Your Nii-san has been waiting for you..."

:-:-:-:-:

"What was that all about?"

Orihime gives Grimmjow a surprised look from where she sits piggy-back style. As of now, they're under the artificial sky, Grimmjow's steps kicking up clouds of dust with each stride."What do you mean?"

"Healing that guy."

Orihime shrugs. "I felt bad for him I guess..." and he restored a piece of my memory... She doesn't say the second part, but continues to mull that idea over. "It just felt right I guess..." she ends up finishing vaguely.

Grimmjow shakes his head, but stumbles mid-stride when the sound of a young child's voice reaches their ears.

"Itsygo! Itsygo! You can't die! Itygo!"

Grimmjow lands in the cave, and glares down at the small, green haired child with a chibi-like skull mask fragment. "Take a hike brat."

"Nii-san?" Orihime looks at him quizzically. She's not entirely sure, but his voice sounds uncharacteristically strained.

That's when she finally takes a look around the cave that probably was a tower sort of building before something blew it into smithereens. That's when she sees a figure clad in black with familiar orange hair lying face down on the ground. And then the little girl's cries from earlier finally register in her mind and immediately she puts two and two together. "K-Kurosaki-kun." she breathes in horror. Running towards him, and gently rolls him over. Her heart sink when she sees the hole in his chest, just above his collar bone.

"Heal him."

Orihime whirls around and stares at Grimmjow in shock. "What? But...why?"

Grimmjow's eyebrows shoot up in surprise. "You mean you're completely fine with him staying like that?" he asks in disbelief.

"No! Of course not!...it's just, don't you hate him?" Orihime asks hesitantly, as Ayame and Lily take their places, and the golden dome once again appears.

"I-Itsygo he, Itsygo protected Nel and he wath hit directly with a thero!" the little girl bawls as she looks at Orihime. "Itsygo was protecting Nel and he got ht directly with a kick! Nel wath only holding Itsygo back! If Nel wathn't here, Itsygo would've been fine!"

Orihime bends down and strokes her head gently. "Shhh. It's okay. It'll all be alright, you'll see."

"I-it's all Nel's fault!" Nel continues sobbing, "So pwease! Pwease, Pwease save Ichigo!"

"URUSAI!" Grimmjow roars, causing the child to freeze in fear. "Enough with the screaming gaki. Shut it or I'll blow you into next week." he growls from his spot on the rubble.

Orihime shoots him a glare, and smiles reassuringly sat her before returning her gave to Ichigo. she narrows her eyes at the circular wound. Such a large amount of rieatsu is around his wound...she thinks. I can't reject it... "Who? Who would do something like this?" she asks a loud.

"Ulquiorra."

Shivers run through Orihime's body as the name seems to reverberate through her.

"It's what he does." The Sexta continues as he stand up, oblivious to the reaction his explanation is having on her. " I'm not sure if he realizes it but, whenever he takes an interest in his prey, he always punches a hole in the same place." He scowls as he walks up to her and claps her on the shoulder. "I'll teach him." he growls to himself. "What happens when you mess with someone else's prey."

"Ugh..."

Orihime, Gimmjow and Nel whip around and stare at the Strawberry who blinks groggily twice. He stares up at them with surprise on his face as he realizes who it is. "Inoue? Nel?"

"Kurosaki-kun!"

"Itsygo!"

"Shut up!"

"Nii-san!" Orihime cries in disapproval, elbowing him in the ribs (and bruising her own elbow in the process).

Grimmjow shakes his head, and there's a note of urgency in his voice. "If you've got time to chit-chat, hurry up and heal him."

Ichigo's eyebrows press together in confusion. "Grimmjow...you...Why the hell are you with Inoue?" he asks.

"Urusai and let Hime heal. I only came here to settle that score with you at full strength." he adds something under his breath, and Orihime catches her name, but doesn't make out what else he said.

"Hontou nii-san? Can I watch?" She asks curiously.

Ichigo looks incredulously between the two of them. "What?! You actually WANT to watch us fight? And what the hell do you mean 'Hime'?" he demands, giving the Espada a glare.

Grimmjow grinds his teeth. "Didn't you hear me? Shut up! Sooner or later Ulquiorra is going to wise up and come back!" he shouts in frustration, "Before that hap-!" Grimmjow cuts his sentence off as someone sonido's in just behind him.

You both whip around to see the tall, dark-haired Arrancar that you had met on several occasions standing there with a look indifference and boredom on his face.

Nii-san's fraccion?

"What are you doing, Grimmjow?" he asks calmly, his voice lacking all emotion.

Grimmjow is silent, glaring at him. Orihime glances at his back worriedly as she shifts over to place herself between him and Nel.

"What's wrong?" The other Arrancar asks Grimmjow, and by the way his shoulders tense up, she can tell that he is taunting him. "I'm talking to you."

No one says a word, but behind her she hears Ichigo roll onto his stomach and prop himself up on one arm.

"What are you trying to pull – healing the wounds of an enemy I already defeated?" he demands, when he doesnt get an answer. He points one black-nailed finger at Ichigo's head. "I killed that man for Aizen-sama. You are aware that killing him goes against Aizen-sama's wishes?"

"So he's back to Aizen-sama, now?" Grimmjow asks finally.

"I do not understand what you mean," The Arrancar says stiffly.

"Just because you had one little spat with the woman, now you're back to being an emotionless robot. I got to say, I prefer the other Ulquiorra."

Against your will, a half-choked noise escapes from your mouth as you connect this man with the Arrancar you met so long ago, that day in the throne room. 'one little spat with the woman.' no. That's..."Impossible." you breathe as your eyes widen as you put two and two together.

The man-Ulquiorra-stares at Grimmjow with no emotion and unblinkingly. "It was not just a spat. She made clear her intentions. I did not wish to inflict further pain upon her. You saw what happened the last time she remembered – we had to visit her in Szayelaporro's lab; we snuck into the room while she was asleep."

"Please, wake up Inoue Orihime. I don't know what I will do without you…"

Orihime starts to feel herself hyperventilating, "Masaka...m-masaka!"

"Orihime, what are they talking about?" Ichigo asks quietly, but Orihine barely hears him.

"She obviously had no intentions of remembering me. I decided to let the situation dissolve."

Grimmjow's hands ball into fists. "Fuck you!" he snarls.

"…What did you say?"

"You heard me," Grimmjow says. "I said fuck you! What happened to the life you promised me? You shook on it, asshole! And you're just going to "let the situation dissolve"? Not if I've got anything to say about it, bastard!"

"Nii-san!"

Grimmjow throws himself at the other Arrancar and Orihime watches helplessly as he viciously attacks the other man mercilessly. But even so, Orihime knows Grimmjow's usual fighting style, and she can tell something is off. His attacks are more desperate.

"You don't seem like the type to break promises," Grimmjow hisses, bringing his face into Ulquiorra's

"Perhaps you should re-evaluate your judgment of my personality, then," Said Arrancar responds emotionlessly.

A furious wave of killing intent explodes from Grimmjow. "Selfish bastard! You never think of anyone besides yourself, do you -?" but Ulquiorra vanishes, only to reappear out if thin air above him, with a cero charging in his finder.

"Nii-san, look out!" Orihime screams, but Grimmjow already has his own cero charging in his hand, and there's an explosion of smoke as the two cancel each other out."

As the dust dies down, Orihime catches a glimpse of Grimmjow whispering something into Ulquiorra's ear and drops something into his hollow hole. Just as he jumps away, it expands and wraps itself around Ulquiorra.

"Shit..."

And then he vanishes.

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