Ulquihime Halloween Fest 2009
Rating: E for Everyone
Summary: The day that Orihime left her friends and her town was the day before Halloween. And the one who came to pick her up reminded her of a ghost. On the Halloween, that ghost gave Orihime some kind of trick and treat... while she was trying to figure out his intention. (Sorry I'm suck at summary)
Beta-ed: By the lovely issues09 from BA. Thanks for reading and proofreading my insanity!
Disclaimers: Bleach doesn't belong to me. Bleach is Kubo's masterpiece. Ulquiorra and Orihime don't belong to me. They are Kubo Tite-sensei's shippy. They belong to each other.
Warning: At first, I intend to write a crack fic with a simple plot that is "Ulquiorra gave Orihime something on Halloween"... But for some reasons, it turns into SRS BSNS story. This could probably be due to the Halloween theme that I abused and Ulquihime connection to it. And the real plot might be lost in process, I don't know. But I hope you enjoy this little story.
Author note: Italic mostly used for thoughts. The narrator might be not really insistent for one person. Whether it's Orihime's or Ulquiorra's or a third person's. I divided into 5 parts so you could click on the spoilers of each one to reading.
TRICK OR TREAT
CHAPTER 1: GOODBYE HALCYON DAYS
Today is Halloween.
Inoue Orihime couldn't believe it herself that the day she had to leave her friends and her beloved hometown was the day before Halloween.
A week ago, she was actually looking forward to it. Halloween.
She planned to visit Tatsuki-chan on that day because she was invited to her family's Halloween party, "Trick or Treat", which was celebrated together with Tatsuki's neighborhood family -- Kurosaki-kun's family.
And now here she is... in a den full of Hollows, in a separate world different from her own.
There was no Tatsuki-chan or Kurosaki-kun.
Look like instead of planning to join humans' party for ghosts and monsters, a human girl like her, suddenly had gone and joined some evil spirits' party… and unwillingly too.
Maybe the Halloween God wanted to play a trick on her... because she had not been good enough lately.
It became worse when the one who came to pick up... no... abduct... her reminded her of one of the ghosts in the Zombieland movie that she had watched together with Tastsuki before.
He looked so pale... and so white that on their way to his so called "home", in the dark pathway, she felt that he had become something luminescent from floating at one point to disappearing at another point.
He was so different from her who obviously had to run behind him so that she would not get lost in this kind of darkness.
Sometimes she tripped over something that she could not identify well, and every time like that, she felt his vivid green eyes acting like a flashlight shining her face out… and staring at her in a ridiculously strange look.
Each time like that when her gray eyes met his, she kept reminding herself like a magic spell in her head, "This man is not human. He is not human."
After a quick stop and a quick glance at her over his shoulder, he continued his walking speed at the same rate. Still, he kept doing that act every time she tripped.
Stop.
Glance.
Move forward.
He did not either slow down his speed or say something to ridicule her. He was like a silent ghost walking in a train and checking if there are any passengers getting on the board.
While the one in front of her had not spoken any words yet, for some reasons, she wanted to hear something from him. Just because she hated being ignored.
However, regardless of everything, she still held her breath and followed this ghostly man. She chose to do that to protect her friends whose lives had been threatened by him.
After she had gotten out of the darkness, the following color that sprouted into her eyes was white.
A white desert.
A white castle.
A white moon embraced by the darkness of the night sky.
"Everything here is just like him. The same color." She thought while looking at the new and unusual landscape.
"This is the place where Hollows were born and died, Hueco Mundo." He told that to her.
His deep, low and steady voice startled her and had sent a chill across her spine. It was an odd sentiment that she couldn't quite define if it was fear or not.
He took one of his hands out of the hakama's pocket and pointed his finger toward the white castle, "You'll stay at Las Noches where Aizen-sama resided at," and she noticed that he had black fingernails.
She wondered whether he was into Gothic or Victorian fashion, but that abrupt thought was washed away immediately. Because in a split second, the one who just now was right in front of her eyes disappeared and reappeared behind her back. His arm wrapped around her neck while his fingers left a ghostly touch on her shoulder barely.
Within that moment, she felt a rapid shift movement of her body and an odd sound was made.
BOOM.
When she finally opened her eyes, she had already been inside the castle.
She didn't know how in the world the hollow man had done that.
Well, at least she didn't have to worry about how long she had to continue running from the desert to the castle.
To be continued...
JinxJen's note:
The inspiration happened when I read back those Ulquihime chapters in Bleach and I realized that the day Ulquiorra confronted Orihime in the tunnel and asked her the infamous seducing line was October 30th. And after he gave her all of orders and intructions, he told her "come to the appointed place at midnight" which mean the day that Orihime went to HM with Ulquiorra was exactly on Halloween, October 31th. Using that timeline, I wrote this story.
In this chapter, Ulquiorra and Orihime were passing through the bordering dimension between Human World and Hueco Mundo known as Dangai which was a dark pathway and using spirit particles as the foot stand.
An odd sound BOOM made was when Ulquiorra used sonído on Orihime. It was a technique used by Arrancar which allows him to move at extreme speeds.