Ulquiorra was the hand she failed to hold in that very last moment, while he...the man who lost his voice, was the hand that she did manage to reach at the brink of death. "He had inevitably lost his voice, possibly for good." Mainly GrimmHime.

She would love to be lifted off the ground again, just to reach his lips. Levy and Gajeel, from awkward to intimate.

"Nii…" he heard her whisper as the thought of her dressing so dangerously beautiful for another inspired jealousy in him. Standing wordlessly, she had a certain stare that weighed like a thousand of hopeful prayers. And against all odds, he answered them.

'Jien' was no more when he raised a hand to his mother to save his little brother. The ties between the Sha brothers, bloodied and broken... It makes one wonder, was there ever happiness and peace even when the two still had each other? Poetry.

"You should know, Gin, that my patience is just as good as yours." GinRan, set during the Winter War, based on chapter 416 & 417.

"He… had a smile on. She didn't even have a tear to spare, just because…" A witness recounts Ichimaru Gin's last moments. Did love cause his twisted way of life? Whatever the answer, Rangiku has no regrets having loved such an abomination. GinRan 1-shot.