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Post by Ulquiorra Cifer on Aug 10, 2014 20:49:47 GMT -6
"The Call":The Cuatro Espada appeared on the street below Inoue's apartment. His eyes shifted to the lamplight glowing from the second story window. She hadn't moved. Good. His head turned to his surroundings. He did not know why Gin Ichimaru was here and not at his master's side, but anything beyond the plan could ruin it; he also had questions. For the chestnut female inside. He lifted a hand from his jacket.
"Inoue. Orihime Inoue."
He knew she would hear him. The next decision lay with her.
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Post by Orihime Inoue on Aug 11, 2014 13:31:27 GMT -6
Orihime stopped in the middle of her chores hearing the faint calling of her name from a familiar voice. She looked around the room seeing nothing and went back to what she was doing. However, she could not shake the feeling of hearing that voice. She shook her head to dismiss the feeling and walked over to her bed.
Sitting on the edge she fidgeted with her hands becoming nervous. "He's dead. Right? I watched him die. Kurosaki-kun defeated him."
However, that feeling would not leave her.
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Post by Ulquiorra Cifer on Aug 11, 2014 13:37:02 GMT -6
Outside, Ulquiorra heard her low-voiced denial and spoke to her again. "I know you can hear me, onna." He paused then swept his arm before him. "Answer my call," he commanded.
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Post by Orihime Inoue on Aug 11, 2014 13:44:43 GMT -6
Orihime eyes widened as she quickly stood from the bed. Slowly she walked over to the window and looked down on the street. On the street across from her building stood none other then Ulquiorra the fourth espada. She froze in place as her heart pounded in her chest.
"He's alive." She thought to herself. "And he is here for me. But why?"
She wanted to run but could not move from the window as she looked down at him. "Why?" She asked him.
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Post by Ulquiorra Cifer on Aug 11, 2014 13:52:13 GMT -6
Even if she had grown into the beauty she'd been gifted with, it seemed that she hadn't changed in her reactions to himself. A silver of a smirk formed on the Espada's face. He answered her question with another in the same low tone. "Are you still unafraid of me?"
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Post by Orihime Inoue on Aug 11, 2014 14:00:17 GMT -6
She looked "No. I am not afraid of you. Now my question." She said in a forceful yet meek tone, "Why are you here?" She started shaking her head. "I am not going back."
She went to turn and walk away from the window knowing she would still hear him even though she was not looking at him. "I am not going back, Ulquiorra." She repeated.
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Post by Ulquiorra Cifer on Aug 11, 2014 14:15:29 GMT -6
Ulquiorra wasn't fazed by her resistance. "Aizen-sama usually gets what he wants," he resonded, using calm logic. "Would you prefer that another comes for you and doesn't care for the condition in which you arrive in?" He let his words sink in. When she remained stubbornly silent, he allowed some of the mask to slip.
"I wanted to come."
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Post by Orihime Inoue on Aug 11, 2014 14:21:33 GMT -6
"It would not matter who came for me. I am not going back." She sat on the edge of her bed again. "Why? Why did you want to come?"
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Post by Ulquiorra Cifer on Aug 11, 2014 14:28:04 GMT -6
Silence greeted her then the Cuatro Espada returned his hand to his jacket. "I don't know," he replied. "Why did you reach for me?"
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Post by Orihime Inoue on Aug 11, 2014 14:33:15 GMT -6
Orihime sighed and started fidgeting with her hands again. "Because... Because I didn't want to see you die."
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Post by Ulquiorra Cifer on Aug 11, 2014 17:26:49 GMT -6
"Why worry at all? I was your enemy, your jailer. Why," he hesitated and whispered the word echoing in his mind, "care?"
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Post by Orihime Inoue on Aug 11, 2014 17:42:35 GMT -6
"Because that is me. I care. And I don't like to see people hurt or suffer. No matter who or what you are." Orihime said softly in the silence of her room.
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Post by Ulquiorra Cifer on Aug 11, 2014 17:53:17 GMT -6
"Then I should be myself?" Ulquiorra questioned aloud, though half to himself.
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Post by Orihime Inoue on Aug 11, 2014 18:05:20 GMT -6
"How can you be anyone else, but who you are? It would be a lie if you were anyone else but yourself." Orihime said with the title of her head as she thought.
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Post by Ulquiorra Cifer on Aug 11, 2014 19:28:29 GMT -6
"Sound enough reasoning." The Cuatro murmured. His hands slipped deeper into his pockets and he vanished.
"Wha-" Before Orihime could finish her question, the door to her house slammed open and Ulquiorra appeared behind the woman, green eyes dark and intense.
"Then I will be," he stated quietly, and pinched a point on her neck. Orihime slumped forward into his arms, unconscious.
Ulquiorra stared down at her for a few moments then set her down on her bed, turning to her drawers, eyes narrowing as he scanned the surroundings. Finally, he found it. Sonido'ing to a collection of items in the living room, he pulled open a drawer underneath the table. He took something out and reappeared by the unconscious woman, slipping his bracelet back on her wrist. He nodded once, satisfied, and carried her out of the house in his arms.
BREAK FOR NEW RP "The Substitutes Little Sister":
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