When I woke up Rumi was standing over me with a concerned face. Ulquiorra was standing beside her with his arms crossed and a somewhat amused glint in his eyes. I immediately started wondering why I was in the floor.
And then I remembered.
Rumi's last name. Her last name is Hinamori. I was so confused on what that meant. I seriously doubted she was the Momo that Toushirou talked so fondly about. She had said that Aizen had found her and taken her in. But was that true? Or was it was it something she had been told to believe?
I just didn't know what was going on anymore. I sat up with a hand to my forehead. Rumi jumped in a suprised fashion and fell to her knees in front of me, "Are you okay? Do you need water? Should I go get ice from the kitchen or-"
Ulquiorra interrupted her, "Calm down. She's probably fine."
I started to agree with him but then thought of something, "No...Actually ice would be nice, thanks Rumi."
Rumi gave a triumphant grin towards Ulquiorra and ran out of the room. Ulquiorra raised an eyebrow at me and I sighed, "I'm fine. She's just freaking me out a bit."
I pushed myself off the ground and instead sat on the bed. He chose to roam around the room like he had never been inside, "She told you then?"
I closed my eyes in frustration, "She confused the hell out of me. I mean Hinamori? What is her relation to Momo Hinamori?"
Ulquiorra flattened his hand overtop of my journal, "I'm not really sure. Aizen took a liking to her because of their similar appearance." There was a long pause and he opened my journal flipping through the pages, "What is this?"
I dashed across the room and slammed the pages shut, "It's my journal leave it alone."
He held up his hands in a defensive motion. I glared at him and walked slowly backwards towards the bed. Once I got back to the bed he put his hands down, "I don't understand why I'm not allowed to see it. I've been here the whole time you've been here so there's not much that I don't know about."
I snorted, "You don't know my thoughts throughout the time I was here. And besides that it starts before I got kidnapped, thank you very much."
He smirked and shook his head. I rolled my eyes, "How did the meeting go?"
He looked shocked for a moment then looked away, "It was about Grimmjow's failure in battle against your brother."
I blinked, "Failure? You don't mean?"
Ulquiorra looked uncomfortable about the situation, "I stepped in like I used to the first time we served Aizen. He's been asleep since then...because we don't have good medical supplies. That's why Inoue was kidnapped before. Your brother not that good of a fighter still. It wasn't that hard to get away without being injured. He's not so lucky he took a beating from Grimmjow and afterwards from me."
"Ulquiorra!"
His gaze returned to me with wide eyes, "Relax, he's better off than the shape he put Grimmjow in. Besides that he's not alone he just has to find one of his friends that can heal him."
"One? So he brought a group?"
Ulquiorra looked confused, "At first it was just him and Captain Hitsugaya. Now it's a group of like eleven."
I could tell I was blushing immediately after he said Toushirou's title. But why would Toushirou be stupid enough to rush into battle without a plan? I knew that if he arrived at the same time as Ichigo, there was no plan.
I blinked and thought some of Ulquiorra's previous statements over, "You said my brother wasn't a good fighter but wasn't he the one who killed you that first time?"
Ulquiorra nodded.
I furrowed my eyebrows together trying to think about more on the subject. Something occured to me but I couldn't remember exact details, "Orihime said something about it but I can't remember what she said. I remember her saying something though because she was visiting my house and she waited until Ichigo left the room to say it because she was afraid it would upset him. It was something about fear..."
I was thinking it over when Ulquiorra's voice interrupted my thoughts, "Before I died I asked her if she was afraid of me, if that's what you're talking about."
I shook my head, "No. I know that story. It's something else she said like...Oh! I remember! She said she was more afraid of Ichigo when you two were fighting than she was of you."
I finally looked back at him and noticed he was sitting in the floor in front of my dresser looked very confused, "Wait. Isn't she in love with Ichigo?" I sighed, "Yeah and I wish she'd get the hell over him because he's got a huge ass crush on Rukia."
His look changed from confused back to stoic, "But is that going to go anywhere? I mean Rukia and Ichigo."
I put a hand to my forehead, "Not if he doesn't ask her out. But otherwise yes it's going to go somewhere."
I saw a strange glint in Ulquiorra's eyes that looked a lot like concern. That confused me because I knew he didn't like Ichigo. Why would he be concerned. Before I had time to ask him why the door opened and Rumi came in with a bag of ice, "Sorry, it took so long! I got lost and that's weird because I was just in the kitchen this morning I should've known the way."
I smiled and took the ice from her, "Thank you Rumi. I was thinking of getting to sleep a little earlier than usual so I'm sorry but you'll have to leave again."
She glanced over at Ulquiorra and got a mischeivious glint in her eyes, "Won't he have to leave too?"
I knew what she was thinking and it wasn't something I wanted even entering her mind. I blushed and nodded, "Yes we were just talking about it." I thought of something I needed to tell him though and tried to think my way into him staying for a little longer without it looking suspicious. Well I guess it already looked suspicious with me blushing and all, "I haven't eaten yet though and he was going to take my tray once I was done."
Thankfully the tray of food Rumi had brought me was still on the bed beside me. Rumi glanced at the tray, then at Ulquiorra, and finally at me. She smiled at turned for the door saying goodbye before she left again.
I looked at Ulquiorra, "I'm not sure if you noticed but she just came to the completely wrong conclusion."
He nodded, "I noticed."
I picked up my tray of food, "I really don't want to eat this though."
He stood up, "Then why am I really here?"
I stood up and started walking towards the bathroom with my tray, "Hold on a second."
I dumped the contents on the tray in the toilet and flushed it. I came back and gave him the tray. But before he could take it completely from me I whispered, "When we escape...we have to take Rumi with us."
"What!?"
"We have to, she doesn't deserve to be kept here by Aizen. She thinks she's got a good life but it won't be that way once Aizen is gone again."
He sighed, "Okay."
I smiled and let go of the tray, "Tell Grimm I said hello if you get the chance."
He nodded and set off for the door with the tray. Once he left I set the bag of ice I now possessed on my pillow and picked up my journal.
I definitely had something new to write about.
But before I could open the pages the door slammed open and Aizen stepped in my room.
I set the journal down beside me and calmly looked at him, "What is it?"
He grabbed my wrist and yanked me out of my room and down the hallways. He grip tightened the farther we went and right when I thought for sure my wrist would break he stopped and let go of me.
Aizen turned around to face me and pointed to a door to my right, "It's time to prove that you're on my side."
Oh no...
Okay next chapter is the last one I have the ending already planned out and everything! Oh God the last chapter is going to KILL me to write. Too many details! Okay guys in case you haven't noticed on my profile page it explains that fanfictions will be updated every Monday Wednesday Friday and Saturday. This is a day late...My other in-progress story will be updated twice tomorrow because I didn't update Friday...This means that the last chapter will go up Wednesday...Don't forget to review!
