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Ulquiorra: Nocturnal Evolution Epoch	By : Kisuke.LikeABoss Category: Bleach > Het - Male/Female Views: 1835 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Chapter 5: Broken Parts

The memories…

He felt himself floating in a grey and dusty desert. Everything here seemed dead. He had no body; he was just a part of the sand. But he had consciousness. He could acknowledge that his body was this black soot being swept away by the wind. Suddenly the ash started to come together, and take on a shape. There was something in front of him; another being was standing before him. As his body came back to him, he could make out the shape of a woman. She was the most beautiful thing he had ever seen. Even with her puffy, tear stained face and rustled hair. Even with her clothes torn and dirty. He just knew he'd never seen a more perfect female before.

She was the woman from his dream. Her fiery red hair was literally on fire. In fact her entire body was engulfed in a huge flame. Her eyes were a blend of orange and red. Her body was covered in a yellow armor, stitched together with orange and green light. He could make out large transparent, butterfly wings on her back. She seemed to be pulling away from him. No, it wasn't her pulling away, it was time rewinding further.

The series of events brought him to the moment where he was set afire. His eyes grew wide in shock to see that it was the woman that caused his demise. Then he saw a beast, it morphed into the spiky red haired boy from his dream. He flashed next to a moment in which he gained a long sharp tail, and this tail snapped the boy's neck after he'd penetrated the boy's chest with his hand. He killed this boy.

He was thrown back further and this time he was in a serene grassy field. He looked above him to find the woman atop him, making love to him. He could feel his body's reaction to her, and he felt all the emotions this woman brought to the surface of his existence. He knew now why she was important to him. He was in love with the woman!

When next his consciousness came to him, he was drawn back to his time as Espada number 4. He had a human shaped body, with half his mask in the form of a helmet atop his head. His hollow hole was in his chest, and he had long green tear drop etchings down his cheeks. He could recall his temperament, his certainty that all life's purpose was to attain nothing, he felt it all. 'If you attain nothing, you lose nothing' that motto rang in his head.

His next stop on this memory ride brought him to a barren white tree. The tree was like a home to him. It was void and white like he was. He was a small hollow, but he held a human shape. His mask completely covered his face and had long bat ears on it. His hair coming out the back was long and black. His eyes held the only bit of color to them, being that same intense green that they were. All the creatures around him were black with sharp teeth. He struck them all down and ate them, before they could consume him. Then there was nothing but blackness surrounding him.

He caught glimpses of images now. His body was no longer his own, he was one of many souls. He was a large sized white bat, not unlike the pet bat Kanzen now kept, but not the humanoid that it was. The only thing he could feel was hunger. His bat body consumed hollows around him.

Next his memory flashed back again, he was no longer a bat. He was a large hollow, his body similar to the others around him. The faces held a mask with no real definition, wore long black robes and they were in a forest.

He wasn't this hollow for long; he next became a similar hollow to the one he fought on the streets of Tokyo. He fell through a black opening and he was terrorizing a group of souls in a small town. He was monstrously huge, his face was a skull, his body was a pink color, and he was devouring the population.

All of this Ulquiorra took in stride; he already knew that since he was an Arrancar, he had to have first been all of these different forms of hollow. But what he became next shocked him. He never expected that he was once a soul of Rukongai.

All the previous memories only slowed long enough for him to view them and move on. However for this series; time was allowed to be slowed down even further for him, as if this event was most important for him to comprehend. He saw his human soul, it was incredibly dismal. He was dragging his hands down his face, shredding his cheeks. He was pounding on his chest, as if trying to remove the pain he felt from his heart. He was moving now to another scene where he was holding an old man, but… he wasn't really an old man. Something happened to both of them, something terrible.

'No! No! NOOOOOOOO!' the airy voice heard was his own. 'Fix this!' He could hear different fragments of an argument. '…my grandson! ... What did you do!?' Then the bodies of the two souls, seemed to switch places.

He was now the older man and he was content. He had found his grandson who recently died in the human world. He let him know that even though they had only just found each other, they would be separated soon, for it was near his time to become a human again. They spent whatever time they could together, handing candies to the local poor children here. They were stationed in one of the lowest districts of Rukongai.

He was holding the hand of his grandson, while handing the candy out, then a child took his other hand. He can remember seeing this child and thinking she was remarkably charming looking. She had hair of dark gold, and her eyes were a piercing blue. While she held his hand, the trouble started. She caused him to exchange the youth of his grandson with his ancient appearance. Looking at her now with his knowledgeable eyes, her form seemed to flash very quickly from the child before him, to the female he saw at the beginning of this journey and back again.

These were all his memories, but they felt like that of a stranger. He was once an old man in Rukongai. He had a grandson that was swiftly taken away from him, by a child. The said child was cursed with the ability to give and take life. Not only that, but the child bore a striking resemblance to the woman he found himself in love with. As comprehension began to fill his mind, he felt a sudden chill of apprehension. No it wasn't wariness or anxiety; it was the cold feel of alarm. He couldn't escape his memories.

Coming back down…

Kanzen watched his master as he flowed through time in his recollections. When he first entered his trance, Ulquiorra's body floated off the ground slightly, and then slammed to the floor. The suffering didn't stop there. His body seemed to be reliving his past, including all his battles and injuries. This journey was stressing his human/hollow body. His cheeks were now shedding blood and the hole in his ear was pulsing and starting to bleed. Because of his conversion from full hollow to partial human, his hollow hole modified and moved from his chest to his ear. As he looked over him, he could see the young hollow, trying to work through something. Ulquiorra's face was in distress. The torment and misery displayed there caused Kanzen to worry. Suddenly Ulquiorra coughed and spewed blood and tissue from his mouth. His master was on the verge of death once again.

Kisuke preformed his test on the sleeping Orihime. He gathered the DNA he needed and began to analyze it. It was the spiritual pressure, which was harder to extract. Because of her rejection ability it was challenging to get it to come forth. This was the reason he needed her unconscious during the procedure. He needed to cause her an extensive amount of damage to gain the amount of reiryoku he needed. Once that was collected he healed her wounds and left her inside the lab to rest.

Reiryoku being the actual power of creatures such as themselves was separated by degrees. The lowest of Average was what one expected of exceptional humans and low ranking Shinigami. High Spiritual Energy came next and usually Lieutenant Class Shinigami held this amount. Captain Class Shinigami, were divided into two kinds of energy users, Great or Immense. The last of these kinds of power level users, was the Vast Spiritual Energy User. These were those unpredictable types, like Kenpachi Zaraki, Kurosaki Ichigo, and Ulquiorra Cifer. These tests would take a few days before he would get the results, but judging from the difficulty and amount he was able to extract, Orihime's reiryoku, was that of 'Immense'.

He walked over to the guest room which held his newest charge. As he approached the room, he could feel the boys' life force fluctuate. He grabbed at the door and immediately slid it open. The hollow boy was reclining on the floor near his mat, and he had puncture wounds and various other injuries to his body. The boy was lying in a pool of his own blood. "TESSAI!" the Shinigami yelled for his second, as he lifted the boy into his arms.

They raced him into the lab where Tessai was preforming non-stop healing Kidō on the young man. Kisuke didn't know what was happening to the boy inside his world, but he'd never seen anything of this magnitude happen before. This was not just a spiritual problem they faced, but a mortal one as well. He rushed to his phone and called upon the only doctor of the human world, which would actually come, to assist him in this endeavor.

Kurosaki Isshin arrived at Urahara's Candy Shop about half an hour after the call. He examined the boy and deduced that whatever he was trying to accomplish inside his inner world, was dealing him death blows. Other than a constant healer to keep him from complete death, there was nothing they could do. Both Shinigami males looked to the healer that lay on the other lab table.

"Is she… how is she?" Isshin asked of his longtime friend.

"I am just waiting for the results of the tests, she should wake soon. But I didn't plan on her to wake up to this," he updated the father of Ichigo. "I believe she is the essence the Soul King is waiting for."

At that Kurosaki Isshin, huffed. "Ha, so it's her, huh? Geez! Grandpa can't keep it in his pants!" he rolled his eyes. "Just keep him comfortable until she wakes, she's the only medicine that can cure him now." Kisuke thanked his friend and watched him leave. He and Tessai would alternate positions while keeping watch over the boy.

It's been months since Kanzen told her he had to train with Ulquiorra, and Horou was pacing the river waiting for him to tell her it was done. She watched the tree when she reached its side again. The opening Ulquiorra had made in it seemed to begin to enlarge. She steadily walked to it, and peered inside. She could see nothing but darkness. She placed her hand to the opening, and felt to see if there was something blocking her way. When she felt nothing she placed her hand inside, there was a chill in the air of the abyss. "Horou!" she heard her soul's body yell for her.

"Horou! What's been happening?" Orihime asked her hollow. She came upon her at the hollow tree as she knew she would. When she saw that the tree had opened more she ran for entrance.

"I'm not sure what's happening Orihime. I haven't heard from Kanzen in months. Then this happened to the tree. He said only Ulquiorra can open the cavern," the hollow princess recited to her. Orihime made herself, ready to enter the tomb. Horou Hanahime gave her a look of concern, but didn't stop her from what she planned to do. The weaver princess entered the void.

Kanzen felt before he heard the woman land on the ground of his space. Like his master he couldn't move from his place on the floor. So long as Ulquiorra was in danger of death, he was as well. He tilted his head to the side to find her feet and legs marching over to their position. She reached him first and bent to him.

"KANZEN!" she yelled. Apparently she must have been trying to speak to him for a while, because her voice seemed strained. "Can you hear me? What's happened here? Where is Ulquiorra?"

The goat-creature lifted his palm and pointed to the place across from him. He couldn't communicate any other way at the moment. She had never seen Kanzen look like this before, but she didn't have time to contemplate his change, as she made her way to the body lying bloody and riddled with bruises near Kanzen's other side.

"Ahh, Nooooo!" the girl exclaimed. She found her lover, and he was dying. She wrapped him in her arms lifting his head from the ground. This was the first time she was able to view him, since she left his ashes on the roof of Las Noches. He no longer had the hollow helmet, and the hole in his chest was missing. His face was oozing blood where his green etching used to be. It looked like he had cried two rivers of blood. His left ear seem to pulsate with a small green light. She found his hole there. She pressed her fingers to it gently, then bent her upper body over his and wept sorrowfully.

He was stuck in a loop of the memory of his grandson dying by the hands of the girl, when he heard the sound of someone crying. He turned to the sound and found the girl beside him. 'Was she the one that was crying?'

"I'm sowwy, I'm so sowwy" she repeated to him.

"Little one," he spoke to her. "I don't know if you can understand me, or even if you can hear me, but the blame is not yours. You were a child with an exceptional gift. I'm sorry for being too grief stricken to realize this." The girl looked at him, and suddenly she wasn't a child any longer. She was the woman and she was crying over him.

He opened his eyes and reached a weak hand to the face above him. 'It was her!' he thought. 'She's here, right now!' There was only one word that came to mind when he saw her crying face, "Onna?" he spoke aloud.

Orihime gasped harshly, at the sound of the name only Ulquiorra called her. She lifted her face from the shoulder she rested it on, and gazed into the midori eyes she had fallen in love with. They were splashed with blood in them, but they were there. She moved her hand from his ear and placed it to his face.

"You're alive," she whispered. Her tears were coming down in a downpour onto his blood soaked features. There was an orange light glowing from them as they fell. Where they landed his wounds were healed instantly.

The hand that held the side of her face brought its thumb to caress her bottom lip, curl around and caress the top one as well. "Found you," he said to her then.
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