Bleach Fan Fiction ❯ Saving You ❯ 2 ( Chapter 2 )

Disclaimer: I do not own Bleach nor do I profit from Bleach. I only do this as a fan.

 

 

Ulquiorra stared at the strange creation that had been set before him to eat. It had a strong aroma that assaulted the nose and made your eyes water. It held an intense shade of royal blue or maybe it was more electric blue, both the chunks and the liquid that it floated in. He looked across the tiny floor table and watched Inoue shovel the food into her mouth. He decided that if a human woman could eat it surely he would be able to.

'Salty....Sweet...savory...and wow spicy.'
Ulquiorra thought while swishing the food in his mouth between chews.

He would never admit it, but he had liked the feeling it left on his tongue.

Inoue giggled as she watched the expressions flitter across his face. “You're so funny.”

“That is something that I have never been accused of.”
Ulquiorra said taking a drink of what should have been milk.

“I think that you should go to school with me. We can say that you are some kind of exchange student from Ireland. You know, because of your green eyes. I can make us lunch and....” Inoue's mouth and mind were moving a mile a second.

Ulquiorra tilted his head with a skeptical look. “That seems like a bad idea to me.”

“Why? I think that my friends would love you.”
Inoue pouted stabbing a pink vegetable with her fork.

“Was it not one of your so called friends that had effectively killed me earlier?”
It was more a fact than question.

“Oh yeah, but once I explain to them that you are not like the other espada it will be fine.” Inoue Chirped.

“Do not delude yourself into thinking that I am a weak being.”
Ulquiorra said frowning and setting down his spoon.

Inoue knew that he was speaking of his past life. “Uh no, I didn't mean to call you weak. Forgive me if I am wrong, but when Luppi was killed it seemed to really bother you.” Inoue uttered recalling the way he had closed his eyes that day.

“That was...” Ulquiorra went silent when thinking back.
Grimmjow had been much like his father, too much like him.

“Yeah.” Inoue said finally understanding why he had looked so upset.

Ulquiorra stayed silent after that conversation only staring out the window into the night sky while Inoue pittered about the apartment. She created a place for him to sleep beside her on the floor in the living area. While most would have been frightened that he would do something violent to them in their sleep; she had never really felt any fear towards him.

It was one in the morning and sleep was not finding Inoue. Her mind raced with different scenarios of how here friends what take what she done. Each one of the scenarios had ended with someone being seriously hurt and tons of howling lectures. She was sure that they would take this as an act of betrayal on her behalf.

Inoue turned on her side and peeked through bangs to see if maybe Ulquiorra was also unable to sleep. Her heart jumped and mouth parted slightly at the sight before her. Ulquiorra's bare and toned chest was rising and falling in the moonlight. She sat up to look down on his placid face; her eyes were instantly drawn to his unsuspecting lips.

'I could lightly touch them with my own and he would never know. No, No bad Inoue, stop thinking those thoughts.' She chided herself and she lay back down. A tiny shiver shook her body when she peeked again.

'I must be cold.' she thought as she inched her body a smidge closer to him.

Sleep finally found her as she listened to his rhythmic breathing.

It was still early in the morning and the two had just barely cracked open their eyes when someone started to knock on the apartment door. Inoue's eyes popped wide while her sleepy companion merely stretched and yawned. Inoue started waving her hands widely in the air while Ulquiorra furrowed his brows to figure out what it was that she wanted him to do.

“Quick, hide.” Inoue said in a panicked whispered voice.

“Where shall I hide? The shoe box in the corner?”
Ulquiorra questioned walking back over to the window.

“Orihime are you there?” A loud feminine voice yelled through the door.

“Tatsuki? Ummm, just one minute.”
she shouted through the door and turned once more to the still bare chested espada.

“Put on you on shirt.” The red head mouthed tossing his t shirt at him.

“It is too hot.” He replied simply and dropped it nonchalantly to the floor.

“Orihime? Hey are you alright?” Tatsuki questioned from the other side of the door.

Inoue sucked in a breath and threw open the door.
“Tatsuki, it is so good to see you.” The red head chimed with a wide grin.

“Ori, I have been so worried about you and no one would give me a straight answer, but here....” Tatsuki's speech paused when she caught notice of a dark haired, half dressed male staring out the window in Inoue's apartment.

Inoue quickly went to his side and grabbed his hand.
“Umm Tatsuki this is my husband Ulquiorra!” she blurted out.

“WHAT!” they both shouted, but Inoue only squeezed Ulquiorra's hand. He in return squeezed hers back just more harshly.

“Wait why is he so surprised about being married to you?”
The Judo girl asked more than suspicious about the whole thing.

“Oh he is just a big kidder.”
Inoue laughed throwing her arms around him in a hug to muffle his words with her breast.

“So the reason that you had disappeared was because you eloped?”
Tatsuki asked and looked at the guy who was currently flailing his his arms due to his lack of oxygen between her breasts.

“Oww that hurt.” Inoue barked rubbing her right breast that now sported teeth marks.

“You know how I like the rough stuff.”
Ulquiorra smiled, his way of telling her that if she was going to play so was he.

“Ha, ha, ha now dear lets not tell are secrets to the world.”
She said shooting a deadly glare his way.

“Why?” Tatsuki asked; once again barging in with more questions.

“Why, what?” The red head asked getting a bored expression form her fake husband.

“I think she was asking why we eloped?” He stated closing his eyes in frustration.

A normal thing when he had to deal with her and other people.

“Well....You see...Umm...” Inoue sputtered trying to figure out the best lie.

He merely shook his head and for some reason even unknown to himself answered for her.

“My family was against an interracial marriage and forbid me to be with her.”

“Inter racial? What are you exactly?”
Tatsuki asked narrowing her eyes as if to see him better.

“Espada.” He said in short getting a more confused look from her.

“Yeah Espada, he is from Italy!” Inoue yelled for the entire world to hear.

“Spain.”
He sighed correcting her and hoping that this game of interrogation was now over.

“Yeah right Spain. Duh, I always get those two confused. Oh my gosh Tatsuki; look at the time. Well see you at school.”

Inoue nearly shouted as she walked back over and shoved the other girl and effectively slamming it in her face.

“Married? Well if that shinigami was not going to kill me before they sure will now. Along with his sidekicks.”

Ulquiorra said leaning against the wall and watching the still frantic and frazzled girl slide down the door.

“I panicked.” she said raising her hands to cover her face.

“You did.” Ulquiorra said nodding in agreement.

“I lied.” She sighed shaking her head in disapproval at her own actions.

“You did.” He agreed once more. She moved her hands to frown at him.

“I think that I just made things worse for us.” She sighed once more.

“You did.” Once again he had to agree with her.

“Stop agreeing with me!”
She shouted and he merely shrugged.
In truth he had found the whole thing to rather entertaining.

Ichigo swaggered in his usual style down the hallway of the school not caring that he was going to be late. His body was stiff, sore and fatigued after this last battle. His only wish at the moment was that the next fight would not be coming anytime soon. Then again if that was true he would not have a chance to see Rukia.

He was a little down the hallway still when the sounds of moans, wailing cries and screaming sent him into super hero mode. Dashing to the door, he had almost reached the handle when it flew open effectively smacking him in the face. He was about to attack the offender when Keigo launched himself at the strawberry blond. His cowardly friend had tears like rivers cascading down his cheeks along with a fat split lip.

“It...It is...so....terrible...” Keigo blubbered.
His hands white knuckled as he fisted the shinigami representative's uniform.

“What the hell is going on?”
Ichigo asked in a hush tone as he looked in on the chaotic classroom.

Desks, chairs, papers and people were in heaps and piles all about the room. He quickly scanned the room for his other friends and soon found Ishida, Chad and Chizuru straight across the room from him in front of the window.

“Come on now Chizuru lets talk about this like rational people.” Ishida said calmly as he inched toward Chizuru who was hanging onto the ledge of the window by her finger tips. The quincy motioned for Chad to move closer to the hysterical girl.

“NO! NO! NO! I can't do it! My world and heart have been slashed violently open by the sharp edged sword of a matador and my beloved senorita is dancing a tango on my battered soul!” Chizuru sobbed on shaking legs barely holding on.

“Oh hey, Ichigo.”
The carefree voice of Mizuiro said from his side making the boy jump slightly.

“Can you please get this off me for one?”
Ichigo asked pointing to the octopus like hold Keigo had on him.

“Then tell me what happened in here. Were we attacked?”

“Well in a since we were attacked.” Mizuiro said trying to pry Keigo off Ichigo.

“See when Chizuru found out that Inoue got married to a Spanish guy she totally lost it. She started tossing desks not caring who she hit, scratched her friends' faces when they tried to stop her and punched any guy with dark hair.” He replied pointing to the bruise he was now sporting on his left cheek. “Then she jumped up on the ledge of the window screaming how she had nothing to live for anymore and that is when you came in.”

“Well, I guess Orihime getting married would sho....WAIT what marriage!?” Ichigo screamed gaining enough strength to pull and toss Keigo off and across the classroom. He did land safely on a pile of still unconscious dark haired boys.

“Well, yeah man. I thought Ishida, Chad and you had known about it since you are so close.” the boy faced player said.

“Tatsuki was sure that you had gone to wedding.”

“Where is Tatsuki anyways?”
Ichigo asked just as Chad grabbed the girl from the window and fell to the floor.

“Ahh, the roof. Yeah I am pretty sure that she took off to the roof.”
Mizuiro said with a tap to his chin.

It was true Tatsuki had been on the roof sulking by herself and ignoring the screams for help from the classroom below her. Ichigo sighed as he walked up behind her not really sure what to say to her, but he needed to know what this girl knew. The last he had seen Inoue she sure as hell was not married.

“Tatsuki” The strawberry blond called out getting a death look from over her shoulder.

“What is it Ichigo? More things that don't involve me, but most certainly do my best friend.” she sneered.

“I need you to tell me why everyone is saying Inoue is married.”
he said walking up to her side.

“That's easy. She told me and I even met the guy this morning.”
she replied effectively retelling the events of that morning.

Ichigo was getting a bad feeling in his gut. “What does her husband look like?”

“Oh I don't know. Messy black hair, green eyes, thin, pissed off and sad at the same time if that is possible. He said that he was Espada and I ha....”
Ichigo cute her off with a look of extreme shock.

“Ulquiorra.....impossible.”
The Representative said barely audible to the girl beside him.

“Yeah, that's his name, but he seemed really rude and mean. Well kind of...”
she had not finished before he dashed off.

Ulquiorra sank into the hard stiff seat in the school office as his so called wife weaved an unimaginable lie. He had not said one word to agree or disagree, only leaning his head on the palm of his hand in boredom. Inoue on the other hand was working on an Oscar nomination as giant tears glided down her cheeks. She would repeatedly grab him and cradle him into her breast making everyone in the office blush. The ebony haired boy waited for someone to call 'bullshit' on the impossible tale, but it never came and he was soon on his way to class.

“I didn't think that you had it in you to lie like that.”
Ulquiorra said staring straight ahead down the hall.

Inoue looked at him and smiled. “I....I just really wanted you here with me.”
she muttered softly.

Ulquiorra looked at her and she thought that he was about to smile, but had not expected him to say. “Ichigo.”

“Huh? What does....”
Inoue was cut off when the full force of a very angry Ichigo appeared.

“You must just love dieing asshole.”
Ichigo snarled getting his sword ready to destroy the Espada once more.

“I am not here, because I want to be. My wife her insisted that I be at her side.” An amused look on Ulquiorra's face as steam shot out of Ichigo's ears. He just had to push it a little further to see if his new companion was as loyal as she had insisted to be. In a flash Ulquiorra had one arm around her waist, one in her hair and his lips pressed flush against hers.