Miniature Murcielago Ch 5

Title: Miniature Murcielago

Pairing: Ulquiorra x Orihime and Grimmjow x Ichigo

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"Some words are meant to be left unspoken Ulquiorra…."

"But I-" The small bat tried to object.

"Come on…" Orihime started, a smile that could make the angels sing flashed across her face, "I have to get some shopping done."

Ulquiorra stared at her blankly. First stunned by this expression, then by what she just said. "Shopping?" He questioned curiously from his seat on her lap.

The auburn hair girl nodded. "I've been gone for a while and I have no food here." She stood up.

Food? Ulquiorra scarcely knew it as something humans must have to contain their existence. Which was why he needed her to eat this food in Hueco Mundo, in order for her to live.

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Born from the pits of despair, conquered over the morals of life, met with a human and views changed, Ulquiorra. He was hovering over Orihime's shoulder as his wings flew gracefully keeping up with her pace as she walked the town, stopping every now and then glancing into some of the shop's windows.

Thankfully, no one with spiritual pressure could see the murcielago. The downside of this though, was that Orihime would continue talking to him, causing the people who passed to stare at her bewildered, because to them, it seemed as if she was talking to herself.

Orihime entered one small shop, with Ulquiorra hovering close by. His eyes darted for all the colorful fruits and the packaged boxes. It was odd to him, he didn't remember seeing any foods like this in Hueco Mundo.

"Ulquiorra…" The auburn haired girl voiced, disturbing his thoughts.

He looked back at her while she eyes the oranges and picked a few. "Do you…you know, have to eat?" She placed one of fruits inside a basket resting on her arm, which Ulquiorra just noticed to be there.

"Eat?" He asked.

Eating to him was like using Gonzui, as Yammy did when he first came to the world of the living. He shuddered at the past and answered.

"My eating is different from yours.'

Orihime turned to look at him, a bit of shock and confusion present in her expression. It didn't bring a good feeling.

'He couldn't mean….'

"I am still a hollow, I still need to consume souls to survive." He continued, he rested on one of the oranges on the rack as Orihime looked down at him. Her lips were agape but no words escaped. She didn't know what to say.

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"But why?" Ichigo questioned, from his spot on the bedroom floor, his arms held back by the kidou spell Rukia Kuchiki had just placed on him.

"Hollows are born from despair. They eat other souls to fill an empty feeling they have within them." The raven-haired shinigami answered blankly.

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Orihime furrowed her eyebrows. Slowly, she put her basket down on the floor, without breaking eye contact with the small bat. Then she reached out to him, Ulquiorra looked at her hand curiously until she took a hold of him. He blinked by the contact.

The teen looked at the murcielago, and then placed his face up to the side of her neck. "Do you want to eat me?"

Ulquiorra's eyes widened, he was a mere centimeter from the skin of her soft neck, her locks or orange fell around over him, and her hand was still wrapped around him.

"Can you smell my soul?" She continued.

Hesitantly, Ulquiorra took a sniff. She had an aroma of fresh flowers blooming in the due of a frosty morning, but he didn't want to….

"Can you?" She pushed.

"Yes…" He answered.

"Do you want to eat me?"

The small bat looked up and could barely see the girl close her eyes as she let out a sigh. He then turned his attention back to her neck. Unhurriedly, he reached his small claw out and lightly brushed his furry fingers against it.

"No…" he answered.

Almost immediately she pulled him away and set him back down on an orange, then reached for something inside her purse hanging from her shoulder.

Orihime pulled out two chocolate kisses and handed one to Ulquiorra. "You should try what kind of food humans eat, maybe then you can adjust."

The tiny bat held the chocolate kiss in his hand. It was quite big for him, considering his size was different. He watched as Orihime unwrapped hers and placed it in her mouth. She let out a sigh of delight while the chocolate melted in her mouth.

Ulquiorra turned his attention to his kiss, and began unwrapping it. He pulled off a chunk from the pointy top, stared at it for a moment, and then leisurely placed it in his mouth.

His senses were immediately awakened by this sweet taste. The textures that welcomed it as it melted in his mouth were foreign, but pleasant. He swished his tongue around, relishing in the taste. His tail waved back and forth.

Orihime looked down at him and smiled when she saw the usual frown on his face slightly move upwards. His shuteyes just added to the content expression. She picked him up, causing him to blink in surprise, still holding his chocolate in hand, as she placed him on her shoulder.

"See, I knew you'd adjust. Just wait, there's a whole bunch of delicious foods you can try."

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Passed the trees and up from the sidewalk, his light step gave a sense of dread yet pride at the same time.

"Why am I in here?" a small voice sounded from a cage, being carried by an orange haired teenager.

"So you don't cause anymore trouble." Ichigo answered truthfully.

From within the cage, Grimmjow sat stubbornly against the wall, his arms crossed. "I didn't even do anything."

Ichigo furrowed his eyebrows. "Didn't do anything? You chewed a hole through my favorite shirt, left dead rats by my window, threw all my stuff on the floor, and might I add…you ate my dad's breakfast."

Grimmjow scrunched his nose. "Well I was hungry." He pouted.

The orange haired teen sighed as he continued walking down the street. "I know…that's why I'm taking you to a fishing dock."

The pantera's eyes filled with light. "F-fish?" He questioned hesitantly. Ichigo nodded, although Grimmjow couldn't see it.

"Yes…fish….I will bring you here once a week if you promise to behave. One slip up and you miss your chance."

"Yes yes yes. I promise to behave."

Ichigo smirked, "Good…"

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Orihime left the first store, her arms carrying at least 5 bags filled with a whole bunch of food.

Ulquiorra watched as she strained herself. He felt something snap in him when he realized he couldn't help even if he tried. He cursed himself for his position currently. Orihime was struggling and he couldn't even do anything.

Being tired of the ways things have been going so far, he muttered to himself something about now being seme. Although that would be quite hard due to his current size, he would have to try.

-BANG-

Orihime smashed her head into her metal pole, immediately dropping all her bags.

Using his quick like reflexes, Ulquiorra dove down and was able to snatch the bag with eggs. Everything else fell but none were as fragile so they were okay. The murcielago placed the bag down and flew up to Orihime's face.

She was holding her forehead and had her nose scrunched up. "Ow..owie…ow….ow that hurt….ow."

"Woman." Ulquiorra spoke sternly, but with a sense of worry in his voice. Orihime snapped one eye open, and she was met with a small face glaring at her.

"Are you okay?" He asked, his hovering wings sending a few waves of rushing into her face.

"Yes, I'm okay." She laughed nervously, her hand still covering her forehead. Ulquiorra narrowed his eyes. "Remove your hand." He spoke firmly.

His tone of voice caused the auburn haired girl to look at him inquisitively. Tentatively, she removed her hand, and a trickle of blood was dripping from her forehead. Ulquiorra's eye's widened, and he flew in closer to take a look.

He didn't know what to do. It was a simple injury, it would be okay, but either way….he couldn't do anything, he couldn't-

"I'll use my shun shun rikka to fix it." Orhime said, while reaching up to her hairpins. Ulquiorra blinked by her actions and watched as she called out her powers. Suddenly, six swarms of light blasted from her hairpins and up in the air were 6 figures.

"What is it now woman?" A husky voice spoke.

"Orihime-san is hurt." Lily voiced.

Ulquiorra stared bewildered at these 6 creatures hovering around Orihime and himself. "So this is her power…." He muttered under his breath.

"Hey, who the hell is that?" Tsubaki asked. The small bat turned his attention to the fairy speaking.

All the other fairies turned their attention to Ulquiorra. "He looks like one of us…" Shun'ou analyzed.

"But his spiritual pressure is different from ours." Said Hinagiku.

"That's it!" Tsubaki shouted, "He's a hollow!"

The atmosphere went to that of negativity. All the fairies eased in on Ulquiorra, their brows furrowed. Suddenly though, Orihime took a step forward to separate them. "What the hell are you doing woman!?" Tsubaki boomed.

Orihime pointed to Ulquiorra, who had his arm's crossed. "That is Ulquiorra, he is now living with me."

"A hollow?! Have you finally lost it?"

Orihime began to fumble for her words.

Ulquiorra watched the scene before him. He was able to conclude that this 'Tsubaki' was part of what Orihime wanted to be. All the fairies actually, they were all piece of her soul. But Tsubaki however, was a real nuisance.

"Instead of focusing on something that doesn't concern you, do your job and fix Orihime's injury." Ulquiorra commanded straightly, his arm's still crossed.

Tsubaki blinked, then narrowed his eyes. "And who do you think you are?" He started towards Ulquiorra, but Ayame came up from between them. "If Orihime is alright with him then you should too, besides he's right…we need to reject Orihime-san's injury."

All of a sudden, Tsubaki returned to his original form of then young girl's hairpin. Ayame turned back to face Ulquiorra with a smile. The murcielago nodded his head with gratitude while the rest of Orihime's shun shun rikka did their job.

Once they were all back to being hairpins, Ulquiorra spoke up. "Tsubaki is quite troublesome." Orihime looked back at him while picking up her bags that were still on the floor.

"Yes, I suppose.." she started, "But he's very important to me."

Ulquiorra slightly frowned.

A normal person wouldn't have noticed it but Orihime did. "Haha, don't worry, you're very important to me too."

The murcielago's eyes widened by her statement…

'Could she…?'