The Capture part 9

This chapture contains gore, violence and death. Warning for possible spoilers (not sure how far the anime is upto seeing as I only read the manga)

I stood squarely on and looked at Grimmjow. "You do know that you can never beat me. You are not strong enough. That's why I'm No.4 and you are not!"

Grimmjow smiled back at me "That's not the reasoning for this."

"Then what is?" I questioned him. Then it suddenly dawned on me. He wanted HER, for himself. And that I couldn't allow. Therefore, this would be a fight to the death. I turned to her, "Orihime, whatever happens you must protect yourself. Not me, or anyone else. Only yourself. Understand?"

She nodded. I turned back to my opponent. "Very well, then we fight!" She held onto my arm briefly before retiring to a safe distance.

The fight didn't start immediately, but the heckling did.

"Y'know she's only with you 'cos you're the first friendly face she saw. Sorry, scratch the friendly comment, you emo clown. You're just a freak!"

"At least my jawbone's where it should be and not stuck on the outside of my skin. And you seem to lose limbs quite regularly."

"Hey that's not fair, people keep cutting them off!"

"Is it because they like you so much?"

Grimmjow snarled at me. I think I hit a nerve, but he continued. "Well my eyes stay where they are, in their sockets."

I removed one, "I can see better and communicate further when they are like this." I let it float around viewing Grimmjow. I could see well enough and a replacement would grow back in minutes.

"Ulquiorra..... you freak!" He taunted me.

I directed my floating eye towards him, and exploded it directly in front of his own eyes, the flames licking up the side of his hair. Instinctively he patted them out with his hand, then said "Where the hell are you?"

"Exactly where I was before." I replied.

"Then why has it gone dark?"

I smiled to myself, the explosion had blinded him. Whether temporary or permanent I did not know, so I had to keep my guard constant in case his vision returned.

"What you waiting for? I thought you wanted to fight." I said.

"Well if I could see where you were I could.... aaaaaaaaarrrrrrrggggghhhhhhhh.....oh...... shhhhhhhhiiiiiiiiii..........."

"Wasn't that the limb you were always losing? I just thought I'd help you lose it a bit quicker."

"Damn you Ulquiorra! When I get my sight back you are so dead!"

So I sliced off his other arm for good measure and then incinerated them both in a cero. That made things a little safer, especially as I knew Orihime would not replace them this time.

I looked back at her, she was in shock from the carnage laid out before her. I returned my gaze to my opponent, and then flash stepped behind him.

"Still want to fight?" I asked him, as I punched my fist through his back, but not through his hollow hole.

"I....can...still....change....." He gasped through the pain.

"True. But even if you change into your panther form, you will still have two limbs missing and an open wound, so what will that achieve?"

Grimmjow snarled again at me. But I continued.

"I have yet to invoke my superior form, but you can't even beat this one, so its pointless me doing so."

"You bastard, you cheated!" He shouted at me.

I took a few steps back. "Cheat? Me? I did no such thing. It was your own fault, you didn't prepare yourself properly. So... do you yeild? Unless you plan on talking me to death....."

"I can still kick you."

I sighed, "If I cut off your legs, where would that leave you?"

"No! Don't!"

She ran up to me and grabbed my arm. I looked down at her. "You do realise the motive of his intention to fight?"

She shook her head.

"He wants to kill me, and take you for himself. His motive hasn't diminished at all in his weakened state. So after hearing this, do you still wish him to live?"

She slowly realeased her grip and took a step back, with heavy tears welling up in her eyes.

I looked at him knelt there "Grimmjow, you're so pathetic."

He laughed at me, "you sound like Aizen whe you say that, are you sure you're not him? You kidnap the girl for your own needs, you kill anyone who tries to take her away. Who are you trying to kid?"

I stopped. Yes, there were similarities, but nothing like what Aizen wanted her for. He wanted an end to Soul Society. I didn't care what happened to anyone else, as long as I had her.

"Hit a nerve did I?" Grimmjow jeered. "Touche"

It was true, he had. My internal anger had welled up to the point of no return and needed sating. Grimmjow's voice was annoying, as was his taunts.

I took my blade out and walking towards him, sliced it upwards. I never turned back to look at him, I knew what I had done.

Orihime was in hysterics "...his....head..........!!!"

I took a deep breath, and calmed down, my anger had subsided. Then I turned to look. I hadn't decapitated him at the neck, just sliced through from the lip to the eyebrow and the slice had slid off onto the floor. The only recognisable bit was a tuft of blue hair on the ground. I sheathed my sword and went to comfort the girl.

What with Grimmjow no more, the reality he created to separate us from everyone else, faded away and we were left where we previously stood.

"What's that there?" Ichigo shouted pointing at the bloody corpse on the ground.

I turned to him, "It's Grimmjow, or rather, what's left of him. That's what happens when people annoy me." I smiled.

Ichigo looked shocked, but shut up quite quickly.

TBC