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Chapter 9: Waking up the Devil

As if awakening from a dream Ulquiorra looked around remembering the emptiness. And the "happiness" that emptiness brought him here. Swearing loyalty to Aizen was to bring him what he required. Nihilism. Why is it now, he doesn't think that is what he is after at all. He was thinking of the woman now. She brought all these questions. He looked to Kanzen again.

"I think it's time we finished our conversation, Cifer," Kanzen announced. Having been thrown back into the void, they could do nothing but talk. Or fight. Ulquiorra preferred to focus his energy on leaving. "Cifer, you know what I did to you back there, right?"

"Of course I do, fool. What about it?" Ulquiorra questioned the spirit.

"I'm sorry, Cifer, because of me, Murciélago is encompassing you; but together can calm him," Kanzen implored again. "You're too far gone man. He's just going to make you senseless."

"I am fine. There is no need, I will never do as you ask," Ulquiorra said plainly. "I think you are irrational about Murciélago and nothing more."

"Damn right! I'm pissed about it! You take that batty bastard and leave the well-adjusted one behind!" Kanzen screamed.

"He had what I required," Ulquiorra answered.

"You are weaker, because you didn't want to have to deal with your emotions!" Kanzen shouted at the Espada. "But that kinda backfired on you, didn't Cifer!"

Without knowing it he said, "What does that mean, Zetsubō!?" Ulquiorra yelled the name that popped into his head.

Kanzen leapt to his feet when he heard the sound of his name being called, even if partially. Perhaps he went about this the wrong way. "What I mean is, you fell for,-" he started but the booming voice from before interrupted him.

"I initially brought Inoue Orihime here to lure and trap you, as I have already done. She is in tower 5. You are invited to try to take her back, however I've decided to keep her. Her abilities really are wonderful. While her power to reject all manner of phenomena greatly over steps the bounds of what a human should be able to do, I have found her recent developments more intriguing. The Leader's in Soul Society understood just how great her power is, and her potential. I have decided to make her my Queen, after creating the Ōken. There will be plenty of time to fight you, my friends, after we're done with everything else."

At that Ulquiorra leapt forward to one of the walls within the void and smashed his fists into it. SLAM! SLAM! CRASH!

"Awww Faqin great!" was all Kanzen could say as the deranged Espada left the void.

"Until then... Las Noches… is in your hands… Ulquiorra." Aizen said just as Ulquiorra broke through the void, to enter the Throne Room of Las Noches.

'I don't care if he wants the World, or Soul Society,' Ulquiorra seethed inside his head. 'He's not taking my woman!' With anger he's never known before, he stepped into Tower 5. Upon entering he could feel his woman across the room. 'He won't have her! I won't allow it!' But to Aizen he simply said, "Yes, sir." Across Las Noches he felt the boy. 'I won't give her to you either!'

"Come, Kurosaki Ichigo," he said steadily.

Ulquiorra walked serenely down the stairs and across the hall towards Orihime. They stared at each other for a long time before either of them spoke.

"Are you afraid?" he asked her, repeating the question that started them on this path. "Aizen will take over your world, and take you with him. There is no one left to protect you," he told her.

'I will!' his insides screamed at him.

"You will die all on your own, without anyone to hold on to."

"Will I be alone, Ulquiorra?" she asked this man.

"I asked if you're afraid," he said again, slightly more annoyed.

Looking into the Espada's eyes, she told him, "I am not scared."

Ulquiorra's eyed widened. 'What a strong-willed woman,' he thought to himself. As she explained how everyone came here to try to save her, even though they didn't have to.

"My heart is already with theirs," she enlightened him.

At this he became slightly incensed, "Nonsense! You're unafraid because they are here? Do you really believe that?"

'This woman! What is she talking about?' a voice in his mind screeched.

"Yes, I do. I came here to protect them. From Hueco Mundo, from Aizen… from you," she told him. "At first I was happy. Then sad, because I had done all of this to save them, yet they still came here to rescue me. I couldn't understand how they didn't know my feelings," she went on.

"But when I felt Rukia's spirit shrink away, and saw Kurosaki-san fight and fall in battle, I realized, none of that mattered, because we all are of one heart. I rose my sword up to defend him, because I didn't want to see him get hurt. We would do anything for each other. If anyone of them had suddenly disappeared, like I did, I wouldn't hesitate to come for them," she finished.

Ulquiorra listened to his woman, and he tried to understand. But these words made no sense! "How ridiculous, we both know what awaits both you and your friends. Saying these things only makes you 'feel' better about dying. It's just instinct, so you don't know despair. In reality it's impossible for people to actually share feelings."

'WHAT!? Stop! You have no idea what you're saying!' his mind screamed again. 'Was that another one?' Who was talking in his head?!

"Really? That's what you think?" Orihime asked in outrage now.

"It's the only rational thing to think. What you're talking about is a delusion,"

Orihime's head bowed as she thought on his words. She was reminded of her departure from Karakura Town. The things she had done in those 12 hours, before Ulquiorra fetched her. She remembered the only person she really wanted to visit was Ichigo. She recalled the reasons why she felt she had to say goodbye to him, of all people.

"That may be true, it may be impossible for all of us to share the exact same emotion, at the same time," she said taking a few steps forward to the Cuatro, to stand within a few inches of him. "But when two people care about each other, our hearts are able to draw a little closer together." Orihime looked up into his eyes; she wanted nothing more than to have this man understand what she was saying.

'How can she say such things? And mean them!' one of the voices argued in his mind.

"That's what it means when we say that our hearts are one," she leaned her body forward to him.

"You use that word so lightly, if I can't see it, it doesn't exist," he said to her. "If I tore open your chest or cracked your skull, would I be able to see it then?" He reached his hand out to her. She reached a palm up to grasp his, placing it to her bust. He felt the thumping in her chest.

'Yo! Dummy! Listen the girl!' now he knew that voice. 'How are you there!?' he spoke to Kanzen. 'Maaannn, I was trying to tell you! You're just too damn stubborn to listen!' Kanzen said back to him.

"Can't you feel that, Ulquiorra?" she asked him. There she went again using his name the way she does. He walked closer to her. She raised her other palm to touch his face. He moved his hands to pull the jacket at her collarbone. He sucked in his breath. There on her neck was the new love bite he'd placed on her.

'We were really there? That really happened?' he asked himself.

'Of course it did, would you Faqin listen for once!' Kanzen seethed.

'I don't want to hear you right now,' he said to the voice. He then began to pull his woman. Yes, HIS woman, into his arms. Then suddenly a familiar reiatsu made its way into the tower. He started to gently tug the healer away from him, as he readied for this battle.

'Oh fuck!' Kanzen said as he felt both the boy coming and Ulquiorra's rage spike.

Exploding from floor in the tower raised the figure clad in black. His eyes lock in on the scene before him. Orihime was pushing away the monster as he was ripping at her clothes.

"Kurosaki," Ulquiorra said in a very still voice.

"Get away from her!" Ichigo thundered.

"You have no idea what you are asking," Ulquiorra said, as he made his way to stand between Orihime and Ichigo. The dust from Ichigo's entrance had yet to settle when the clash of their swords happened. So fast was it that Orihime had no time to stop either man.

"I won't let you hurt her anymore then you have!" Ichigo bellowed as his sword swiped downwards impacting Ulquiorra's Zanpakutō.

"I think you've made a miscalculation, I have been ordered to protect Las Noches until Aizen-sama's return," The Cuatro said as he slashed his sword upwards blocking Ichigo's next strike at him. "I have been given no order to kill her." Fury was building in the Espada, first the thought that Aizen would even think to take her away. "So she's safe," he concluded, as his second thought was of this boy coming into contact with her himself.

"She didn't look very safe to me!" The Shinigami railed.

"You on the other hand, I will take apart with this sword. I see you as the threat here," Ulquiorra felt he had never spoken truer words before.

Their battle only just commencing as flashes of cero blasts and Getsuga Tenshō soon filled the room, blowing a side of the tower out. Orihime had to put her shield up to protect herself from it.

"Please… this doesn't have to be this way," she yells to the two men, who can't hear her. 'What the hell am I supposed to do now?' The only thing she could think of to do… "Ruko Kotan Hana's Combine!" her sword is released, but now she has to decide which of these two men, whom she cared for, she would have to attack. The decision was taken away from her as crashing into the room, is Yammy.

"Hey, Ulquiorra… you need any help with that?" the colossal Espada yelled.

"I do not need any help with this trash," Ulquiorra states to him. "Don't you have a job to do? Go and fight the rubbish at the bottom of the tower."

"Nahhh… Hey Ulquiorra… she's interesting, can I kill her?" Yammy asks, but not waiting for a reply he slams his hand down to Orihime.

"Onna,-!"

"Inoue,-!"

Both men yelled for her. Each has their swords clashed against the others'. Both focused on where the healer should be. Fearing she is beneath the enormous hand of Yammy. Suddenly Yammy's fist is tossed upwards, and there emerged Orihime, with her fire red eyes, orange armor, fiery aura, and blazing sword. With a look of pure determination and furiousness she made her way out of the corner she'd been put into due to the force of Yammy's blow.

"Huh? What is this?" the dumbfounded giant said.

"This… is Daidaiiro Keiko Hana, and I haven't forgotten what you did to me!" Orihime shouted at the Espada. Her fight was no longer on how to break apart her lover and her friend. Now it was a fight for vengeance and pride. Orihime lunged for the behemoth.

"Inoue!" screamed Ichigo as he made his way to help her with the massive Espada.

"Your fight is with me boy," Ulquiorra says as he makes a swipe at the turned back of the Shinigami. He has no doubt that his woman can handle the foolish Espada. She's actually stronger then she was when he tested her abilities.

Ichigo brought his sword around blocking the strike. As Ulquiorra raises his sword for another blow his wrist is caught by the boy. Ichigo swipes his sword up and across Ulquiorra middle.

"The last time we fought, I wasn't able to read your moves," he tells the Cuatro, as blood sprays and collects on the floor between them. "You seem to be slowing down. Is it because you're more human then you were last time?"

Breaking away from Ichigo and stepping back. Hearing this trash speak to him, as if he was on his level, calling him human! Trying to take away the woman! All of it sent a wave of anger and frustration though him.

"You must feel very proud of yourself, being able to keep up with me," he told him. As he plunges his sword to the floor, it lifts from its surface and falls away to either side of Ulquiorra. He then uses Sonído to get behind the boy. Ichigo makes his way to turn in order to block the Espada, but he is not fast enough. Ulquiorra sees his opening and strikes. With a flash of orange light, his sword hits the shield of the healer.

'Oh hell no! Did she just do that? You're not going to let her get away with that are you?' the voice he now recognized as Murciélago said.

His eyes lift to his woman, to see her fending off Yammy AND throw her shield to protect the trash. His eyes widen at the sight. His mood and temper darken as thoughts enter his mind. Visions of his woman in the embrace of this boy have begun to plague him. Him holding and touching her, the way only he was allowed to. The boy pressing his mouth to places only he was giving the authority to kiss. The faces she would make and her voice screaming in ecstasy under the Shinigami!

'Aarrggghh! Trap them! Trap them! Trap them! Enclose them in nothingness!' Murciélago roared.

'C'mon bro, that's all in your head man. It never happened,' Kanzen tried to calm the emotional Ulquiorra.

'But it could happen, couldn't it!? If I let this BOY live!' Ulquiorra screamed at both voices. Kanzen was silenced with that.

"Thanks Inoue, but concentrate on you, I can handle this guy," Ichigo taunted.

Orihime didn't have time to argue as Yammy came at her again in her distraction. She pushed him back again with a double kick to his chest, having him fly back into the far wall.

Ichigo focused himself now, forming the black Getsuga Tenshō on his blade.

"This again? You know I can defeat it," Ulquiorra told him. As Ichigo swung his blade and connected with Ulquiorra's, he found he was pushed back by it. Noticing that the Getsuga never left the blade, he deduced that the boy concentrated its force into it making for a more powerful strike.

"Interesting, but a Getsuga without your mask is still useless," he told him. The surprised look on Ichigo's face was enough to satisfy his anger and jealousy for now. Ulquiorra thrust the point of his sword in multiple directions at the face of Ichigo. All the Shinigami could do was to try his best to dodge and block them.

As they fought Orihime was taking Yammy down, but it was a slow process, as Yammy was more powerful, then she'd anticipated.

"Hahaha, you are a little girl, a weakling, you are nothing but an ant to me," he ridiculed her, as he stomped his feet at her, in an effort to crush her. Then flying in was Uryū, with Quincy Bow in hand he fired on Yammy, striking him in the shoulder. Yammy fell over when he became unbalanced by the hit.

"Ishida-san!" yelled Orihime.

"Inoue-san?" Uryū was flabbergasted at the sight of Orihime. "What... What is all this?"

There was no time as Yammy came at them both. "Now it's fun I get to play with both of you."

"If think you're still fighting the scared girl from before, then you're sadly mistaken!" she screamed. With that she sliced her sword into his leg, cutting it deeply.

Then a grotesque cry came from the titanic Espada. "You... Bitch, I was being nice and playing with you, I didn't want to let you die so quickly. But now I'm not having fun anymore!" He lunged for her with his entire body.

Orihime flashed stepped to the side, grabbing Uryū, as the gargantuan mass came at her. What the foolish Yammy didn't notice was that behind her, was the large opening in the wall, which the previous fighters had blasted.

"Huh?" Yammy questioned, as his body slipped out the wall and tumbled to the ground below.

"Uryū, we have to stop them!" Orihime warned him. He was confused at her remark, but followed her forward into the tower. Once there he found two energetic fighters, in an intense battle, for the life of the other. He pulled the healer behind him, as he watched Ichigo ready to pull his hollow mask out.

"Here you go, Ulquiorra, this is what you wanted wasn't it?" he taunted the Cuatro again. Down came his mask and his spiritual pressure soared. Then Ichigo pressed forward and clashed his sword once again to his opponent's. Ulquiorra's eyes widen at the force, but he back flipped out of range. Ichigo went for him again, and Ulquiorra flashed again, to avoid the strike. The force of Ichigo's Getsuga blew a new hole in the wall of the tower. Ulquiorra floating now, points a cero to Ichigo as he came flying out of the hole as well. However Ichigo simply cuts through it and stands before Ulquiorra.

'I see,' he says to himself.

'Now! Now! Now! Entrap him now!' Murciélago spoke to him again.

'Yes now,' he told his sword.

'This is gonna hurt kid,' Kanzen said.

Ulquiorra flew up, away from the Shinigami, away from the tower. With his Zanpakutō, he sliced open the roof of Las Noches, and entered the ceiling of Hueco Mundo. Ichigo followed.

"Are we above Las Noches' ceiling?" Ichigo asked.

"That's right," answered Ulquiorra. "Two things are forbidden below the ceiling of Las Noches. The first is the Gran Rey Cero that exists for an Espada. The other, is the sword release of an Espada, that is ranked Cuatro and above. Both are so powerful, it would threaten to destroy Las Noches itself." Raising his Zanpakutō forward Ulquiorra says, "Tozase Murciélago."

A rain of green spiritual pressure fell upon Ichigo as he stared up at the Cuatro. The immense pressure was encumbering him, obstructing his view. Then it cleared and before him stood, Ulquiorra in his released state. His eyes widened in shock. Ulquiorra now had a full helmet atop his head, covering his now longer black hair. His fingers seemed to have enlarged. The tear drop etchings were elongated as well, thicker and blacker then before. His uniform was sleeker, the jacket extending down his body, not unlike that of Shinigami robes. On his back rose the oversized glossy black wings of a bat.

"Don't get distracted for even a minute," Ulquiorra told him. Then in a flash he was at Ichigo's side lancing him in the shoulder with a long sharp spike of concentrated reiatsu. Ichigo fell to his knees, as blood poured from the wound. Panting heavily Ichigo turned to stare at the reshaped Espada, in shock at the speed and accuracy he processed.

"You're able to hold your hollow powers for longer spans of time, impressive. But I broke it so easily," Ulquiorra informed the boy.

Ulquiorra threw his lance at the kneeling Shinigami. Ichigo dodged the attack, only to be struck by a second he never saw coming. 'I can't stop him,' he thought to himself. He was thrown back by the force of the hit. He planted Zangetsu into the sand to stay his backward momentum. But Ulquiorra flew at him again causing Ichigo to fly off to the side.

'Yes! Yes! Entangle him! Confine him in darkness. Make him see nothingness!' yelled Murciélago.

Kanzen remain silent in his head. He didn't want the boy to come between Ulquiorra and Orihime any more than Murciélago did.

"Kurosaki Ichigo, hit me with your ultimate technique, so I can show you, you're fighting a losing battle," Ulquiorra steadily told the boy.

The enraged Shinigami raised his Zanpakutō, "Give me a break! I don't need you to tell me how to use my own power!" Ichigo railed at the Espada. "Getsuga… Tenshō!" The black flash sailed across the sky aimed directly at the Cuatro. Without moving, it was completely decimated by Ulquiorra's reiatsu.

"Hmm, it's not unlike a hollow's cero," he notified Ichigo. When Ichigo tried to correct him, He decided to show him. "Let me show you before you die. This is the black cero an Espada uses in his released form," he lifted his finger and pointed it at Ichigo, from it formed a foreboding black flash, "Cero Osuras." Ichigo could do nothing but stand there as the cero came for him, blowing his mask off and away.

Feeling the energy from above, crashing down on them, Uryū and Orihime sank to the ground. The pressure was so immense, part of Orihime's armor cracked.

"Inoue-san!" Uryū yelled as he saw it.

"Ishida-san! We have to get up there," Orihime pleaded with the Quincy. "Can you use your powers to get me to the roof?"

Uryū knew better than to take her, she wouldn't like the result of seeing what would transpire between the two men. But looking at her, seeing her urgency he felt there was no choice. He would take her there.

"Shit!" Ichigo muttered as he fell, in front of him flashed Ulquiorra again. With his bat's wing flicked at him, he was tossed across the sandy field, hitting a pillar.

"Do you understand now?" The Cuatro asked. As Ichigo stood to fight him again, his anger at the Shinigami soared once more. "You cannot win!" He slashed at Ichigo, tossing the boy further back. Seeing Ichigo still held onto his sword, not giving up the fight yet, his fury reached new heights.

Blinded by his rage a blackness consumed Ulquiorra. He was standing in his void once more staring at Murciélago and Kanzen struggling with each other. Murciélago was a large humanoid bat-like creature with yellow eyes. Kanzen's appearance had changed; he now resembled a tall, well-muscled man with long black hair flowing down to the middle of his back, his eyes were black slits, he had hairy goat legs and horns.

"Dude it's about time you got here!" Kanzen told Ulquiorra. "Get this numbskull to back off before I beat his ass into the ground!"

"Shin no Zetsubō," Ulquiorra whispered.
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