Buildings were being destroyed one after another.

Two devils were fighting outside of Las Noches and alarming everyone that was inside of it.

One of the devils was a pale monster with horns and a hole where its heart should be, it was one of the most aggressive creatures that existed.

The other one was a devil in every sense of the word, pale skin, black wings in the shape of a bat, his green eyes with slit pupils were surrounded by black despair in a blank expression that showed only that even though his opponent was much stronger than him.

He did not care.

The two should be considered devils.

Monsters or beasts.

But only one had in mind the destruction of his opponent.

The white devil with the long orange hair was a juggernaut that could not be stopped by anything the black haired devil threw at him.

In a moment the battle stopped. The two of them looking at each other, wondering what would the other will do.

"Don't move, I don't want to throw this near me if I can help it."

Said the black devil while concentrating power in a lance.

Then he threw it, and all hell broke loose.

An explosion that ran for miles illuminating everything that could be seen, was not in the minds of the two devils fighting.

And they threw themselves at each other with everything the had.

Instinct guided the pale beast with horns, while the black devil thought of something other than the battle.

'What is a heart?'

'I'm not trying to win because I want to, but because I have to!'

'Are you scared?'

In effect, the beast he was fighting was the remnants of one Kurosaki Ichigo that should be dead.

It was something unexplainable, it should not be possible.

He had plans for after dealing with Kurosaki Ichigo, but it seems he lost the opportunity to execute them.

He planned to kill Aizen at a moment of surprise of his Resurreccion Segunda Etapa, then get the Hogyouku to learn what is a heart.

While having these thoughts he made a slip.

It was only a tiny fraction of a second.

But by the time he realized, it was already too late.

"So I lost, huh?"

By the time he said that the monster stomped on his head pointing his horns at him, already forming a Cero.

"I see, ruthless, just like a hollow."

He didn't mind dying, it was actually something he looked forward to.

'If I die, will I see a heart?'

The everything exploded in red, his last vision was that of the woman that isn't afraid of him.

He put the last defense just as half his body was already gone, feigning unconsciousness.

Not in a million years would he go out without taking his enemy with him, he just needed one chance.

'NOW!'

In the blink of an eye, he was pointing his lance to the neck of the beast intent on cutting its head off, but in the last second, it moved out of the way.

Still, his mask broke, and Kurosaki could have been dead if not for his curiosity.

As if nothing had happened, he woke up and saw his friends.

Then he recognized his enemy.

"Ul-Ulquiorra"

"Who did that to you?" Then he looked at his friend, "Uryuu, are you okay? who did that to you?"

Ulquiorra almost felt pity for him, but this farce had to end, his friends didn't want to tell him what happened, well in that case...

"Have you forgotten? you were the one that did this to me and the one who wounded your friends."

It was incredible that after all Ulquiorra did, it was hurting his friends that gave him despair.

Something was wrong with him, Ulquiorra could feel it, he should have reverted to a form that used up less reishi, but he was still in his Resurreccion.

"I can't accept this!"

Oh? What could be done about that?.

"Ulquiorra!, fight me!"

That was a stupid resolution, even in this wrong state he was in Ulquiorra was certain that one hit was enough to kill him.

"That thing you fought, it wasn't me!"

So that's why, is this about the heart, maybe he could learn about it in the next battle.

"Alright"

It shouldn't be possible but he felt something spark inside him as if the truth had been revealed to him but he couldn't grasp it.

He prepared himself to fight, but then a crack was heard and his wings started becoming dust and following to his body in increasing speed.

"I see, so this is the end, huh?."

He looked at the woman he held captive extending his hand towards her, formulating the last question in his mind at the moment.

"Do you fear me?" he said, retracting with little strength his hand, he felt too fragile to move.

"I'm not afraid of you" replied the woman, not realizing that the spark he felt would become a fire that he simply couldn't ignore anymore.

"I see" the woman reached out as if to touch his hand, but it started becoming dust before she could reach him.

"What I feel in my hand, it's a heart.."

These were his last words in this world.

The blinding light was the first thing he saw, and a burning pain he couldn't react to for it was nothing against the pure confusion he felt.

Why did he remember everything he lived as a hollow?.

Being reborn meant that his memory would start over from nothing.

And in the first place that creature Kurosaki had become destroyed his soul.

He had no doubts about it, he was supposed to have been obliterated.

Yet here he was being born again.

"Why isn't he crying? I thought babies were supposed to cry when born.?"

He couldn't make out who said that everything was blurred.

"Maybe something is wrong with him, I'll have to put him under observation for a while"

Ulquiorra was then put in something soft, and in a moment he heard something strange, it was like Grimmjow in his Resurreccion.

"GRRROOOARR"

And with a roar as his lullaby, the unnamed baby that was Ulquiorra fell asleep.