Chapter 27: I'll Even Stay Longer.

"Are you immediate family or not? Sir please calm down and answer the question." The nurse at the reception desk asked. There were sounds of doctors yelling orders, people crying to themselves, the sirens of the cop team that had come in at the news of a car accident at the prestigious high school and even through all that, Shiro's and Grimmjow's yelling was the loudest sounds in the hospital.

"I FUCKING LOOK LIKE HIM!" Shiro yelled with so much rage in his voice but damn was he so scared. So very scared and worried and afraid and horrified and...Kami he just wanted to be there with Ichigo.

Shinji was there as well. He was sitting in the waiting area with his head in his hands. "Not baby Ichigo. Not baby Ichigo." He repeated over and over again with a look of horror on his face.

"LET ME IN THERE! LET ME IN DAMMIT!" Grimmjow yelled, nearly knocking off the four security men that were trying to hold the unbelievably strong teenager down. He was trying to get into the room he had seen those doctors and nurses take his Berry into. So much blood...so much blood...Ichigo's eyes were closed...Why weren't they open? Why wasn't he awake to yell at me to stop worrying? He...I was going to tell him.

They were in Karakura Hospital at eight in the evening. Ichigo had been in his room for over seven hours and the three men especially were losing their minds.

The reporters screaming loudly outside the hospital weren't helping at all.

"Both of you. Calm down." Ulquiorra said calmly as he walked up to stand between both men and place a hand on both their shoulders. Both men looked back at Ulquiorra, both with animalistic sneers and glares on their faces that made the people behind them panic slightly.

Ulquiorra didn't show a lick of fear but he did look away from Shiro when the glare hit him. It was filled with way too much anger and Ulquiorra wasn't sure if some of it was directed at him. He moved to stand in front of the reception feeling more than insulted and angry himself when the woman tried to be subtle when she pulled her blue scrubs shirt lower.

"Kurosaki Ichigo. Car accident. His brother. What's his status? Tell us. Now." Ulquiorra ordered, his narrowed eyes mixed in with two murderous glares at his side, scared the woman to quickly find the man his answers.

"Room B45. He got hit with more force than any normal teenager should be able to withstand. Concussion, probably. His left leg got broken. Snapped cleanly. His right arm as well. Five broken ribs, one of which punctured a lung so there was some internal bleeding. He probably wouldn't talk for a while. He's on some heavy pain medication but I would think that all that pain is better than being dead." he turned to their sides to see a man come out of the room they had taken Ichigo with silver hair, glasses and a frown of condisention on his young face. He was also in scrubs that had blood on it.

"...H-He's alive?! My baby bother's alive right?!" Shiro screamed in a panic as he clenched his fists, tight enough to draw blood, to keep himself from bolting past the man to find Ichigo's room.

The man glared at him but Shiro could give a flying horse shit. "Yes he's alive. I already said that...Grimmjow or Shiro?" He asked surprising the albino.

"Sh-Shiro."

"He said those two names when he was coming back into consciousness." The doctor answered simply, his eyes widening a fraction when the three men in front of him were suddenly accompanied by six other men.

Nnoitra, Yumichika, Ikkaku, Renji, Shuuhei and Shinji. Most with tears in their eyes. Except Nnoitra, Ikkaku and Yumichika who just wanted blood.

Renji was holding Grimmjow, who had knelt down on the floor from hearing the news that Ichigo hadn't left him. He was crying tears of relief into his best friend's neck. Renji could practically feel his pain through every hitch of breath and whispered words. "H-He's okay...My B-B-Ber-...I would've died. I...Oh Kami I would've just...died." His words fueled his friend's angers to unimaginable lengths.

"What about the fucker that hit the Berry huh? Is he dead?" Nnoitra asked through clenched teeth. The guy got angry but when someone messes with his friends he turned raving mad.

The man twitched at the taller than should be normal man's rude way of speaking to him. "Yes. She's alive. She appeared to have been extremely drunk. Lucky for her she didn't receive any damage and we have placed her in a room where the two police officers are questioning her as we speak." He could see it in the eyes of everyone in the room, they wanted to kill the woman, except for one pair. A very familiar pair of eyes.

"Ulquiorra." The man greeted.

"Ryuuken." Ulquiorra greeted back.

"Hmm. You may go see him but two at a time. Maximum. He's out cold so he probably won't even hear anything you say. You can stay after hours just don't tell anyone. Consider this as something you'll owe me for Cifer." Ryuuken said before walking past them, a cigarette pulled out of his blue scrubs. He didn't even care that he had blood on his gloved hands.

"I'm going in first. Alone." Shiro told everyone before leaving them all there.

"Go with him." Ulquiorra turned at the close ranged voice to come face to face with Shinji.

"...I...He does not want me with him." Ulquiorra admitted, trying to stay calm himself. Too many emotions. Too many feelings. He felt pain for the young Ichigo, sadness that Shiro's going through a terrible ordeal, the need to comfort his distressed cousin as well as keep everyone else in check. Like always, he needed to keep it all in and pretend he had no emotions but...the difference with the current situation was the way Shiro had looked at him. Like he was some nuisance and he didn't think he could keep that in. Not for long.

"Maybe. But he does need you there. And I'm only guessing here but you might need him too." Shinji informed him with a husky voice and red swollen eyes.

"You seem to have calmed down." Ulquiorra quipped making Shinji let out a shaky laugh.

"Y-Yeah. Yeah. He's alive. He's alive so it's all good. Now go and hold him when he cries okay?"

All Ulquiorra did was nod.

"...Shiro..." Ulquiorra sighed with sadness in his usually monotone voice when he was finally able to find the room that he was told the younger Kurosaki was in.

Shiro was outside the door. Staring at the object. Hands shaking, hair destroyed and tears running down his cheeks as he sobbed quietly.

Ulquiorra wasn't sure when his mind had decided on it but he found himself hugging Shiro from behind.

Shiro didn't react but his shaking slowly stopped as Ulquiorra kept on holding him.

"He...he was just lying there. H-His face...his face was covered. Th-there was blood too. S-so much blood. He's dead. MY ICHIGO'S DEAD!" He yelled as he placed his head on the door and cried harder and louder than before. Ulquiorra shushing him as he listened past the crying. He could hear the beeping of the heart monitor so he knew that Ichigo wasn't really dead but it would seem that Shiro was just in a fear induced trance.

They were both a mess. Shiro had been stressed for such a long time that he had passed out from the shock of hearing the news about his brother. Ulquiorra had spent the whole drive to the hospital in a panic, both for Shiro and Ichigo. He could honestly said he had never felt such emotions in his life, not even in his and Grimmjow's childhood. The look of fear that took over Shiro's face immediately he had gotten up would haunt the young businessman for as long as he lived.

"He's alive. He's okay and that is all that matters. So please...stop crying. This will sound a little selfish but it hurts me too when you cry." Ulquiorra said in the smallest voice he had ever heard come from himself as he held unto Shiro's waist tighter, his shoulders shaking as he fought himself to not cry.

Shiro took deep breaths as his sobbing slowed down. He hiccuped from time to time. Ulquiorra could barely pretend to give a shit about the stares they were receiving.

"...He's okay?" Shiro asked in a choked voice. He sounded completely petrified. Like if he went inside the room again, he would only see a bloody and pale body that was once his brother.

"He's...not in the best shape but he's still here. He's not going to leave you." Ulquiorra promised as he stretched up to place a small kiss on Shiro's neck. He was not good with people physically, emotionally he wasn't even better. He could talk his way out of all situations but physical contact, as well as words, used for comfort was a skill he lacked but with Shiro it came naturally.

"...Will you leave me?" Shiro asked, all of a sudden, he was facing Ulquiorra. His extraordinary eyes trained on Ulquiorra, tears stopped but his face looked like he would start crying all over again at any moment.

Ulquiorra slowly placed both his hands on Shiro's warm and flushed cheeks, wiping away as much of the wetness as he could as he inspected the whole of Shiro's face like he was studying him.

Then he went on his tip-toes and pressed a small kiss on his lips.

"Only if you tell me to. I won't ever leave of my own accord. I love you too much." Ulquiorra told him honestly, his expression still blank but Shiro could see it. The man was crying on the inside and he felt a weight lift off his heavy heart when he realized he wasn't closed off from Ulquiorra anymore. His brother's okay. Ichigo will come back home and smile at him and tease him about him getting old and be there when Shiro came home.

And Ulquiorra loved him.

His lips wobbled as tears gathered in his eyes. He pulled Ulquiorra close and mumbled something that brought one tear from Ulquiorra's green eyes.

"I love you too! Please stay? F-For like ever?"

Ulquiorra let out such a musical laugh that Shiro wanted to laugh as well but he couldn't. His laughter wouldn't be able to come out until he had Ichigo in his arms as well, safe, sound and eyes open.

"I'll even stay longer love."

Short but doable right?

Don't worry. Nnoitra is gonna get that bitch that hit Ichigo.

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SUMMER HAS BEGUN! SCHOOL JUST CLOSED TODAY NOW I IS FREE!
Okay I have established that Grimmjow's like my love but Shiro's there too and writing this physically hurt me so excuse me while I cry in a corner.

Ciao from,

Grimmjowislife.