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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 9: The Reason

He was right! The entire structure was made from the Soul King's reiatsu. If he slashed at the building he would impact the Reiō. He formed his lance again, and plunged it into the crack. The more he pounded on the flooring, the more the man in the box was exposed. Ulquiorra could see his entire head emerge from it. His hair was dark, and slicked back. He had the most intense eyes Ulquiorra had ever seen, aside from Horou Hanahime. These eyes were dark, but the pupils were white and held the shape of four pointed stars.

"You foul creature, you dare to dictate to ME!" the Soul King raged. "What gives you more right to my daughter then I?!" Then from the Soul King, came a burst of orange and purple light. "I will erase you permanently from this world and all others!" Green light clashed with the mixture of the orange and purple, as the Soul King fought with the hollow man. Ulquiorra flew to the top of cylindrical palace, and threw his newly formed lance at the king. It seemed until the Soul King could emerge fully from his internment within the box, the Cero had every opportunity to wound and puncture him. Ulquiorra was doing his best not to do too much harm to the father of Orihime. The Reiō flicked his eyes at the lance; it steered off course and blasted into the far wall to the side of the Cero. Ulquiorra was slashed in his side by it, and fell to the ground.

"You don't even know the woman," Ulquiorra announced to the King. As he spoke blood spewed from his lips. He knew this would be the outcome if he fought this soul, he knew he would perish. But he would do everything he could release his woman.

"And what is it, you know about her, that I do not?" he asked the boy. The Soul King's reiatsu was so immense now; it pressed the hollow to the floor of the palace. Ulquiorra was finding it even more difficult to breath.

"I know… what… is in… her…heart!" his mind was brought back to Tower 5, when Orihime told him that all her friends were of one heart. If any of them would have disappeared like she had, she would have gone to any length to find them. He finally understood what she'd meant, because he would go to any length to ensure her freedom, and safety. Not just because he was in love with her, but because he loved her more his own life. With the last reserves of his strength he poured all of his reiatsu into one last Lanza Del Relámpago. So much energy was dispensed into it, it was larger and hotter than he had ever experienced before. From the ground in which he lay, he launched his final attack at the Soul King. No matter what happened now, it was the end for him, and he had done all he could for his woman.

He knew the lance would never make it to the Soul King himself, so he aimed it at the base of his prison. There was no time for the King to counter this attack. When it connected with the base, there was a massive explosion, and the King found himself on the ground, near him was a substantial hole and his face showed signs of pain. But this was not enough to keep the King down. He pushed himself up and now free of the confines, paced his way to the fallen hollow.

Lifting the younger man in one hand, the king pulled him to his face. With his other hand stretched back, the king formed a ball of light. "I know what is in her heart as well. It was because of you, she suffered on the roof of Las Noches." The king slammed his lit fist into the side of the hollow. Ulquiorra ejected more fluid from his mouth. "It was because of you, she cried out in anguish!" Once again he slammed his fist into the boy. "It was because of you, she has a piece of herself missing! I will return it to her!" Before the king could hit Ulquiorra again, the jaws of the Adjuchas panther clamped down onto his arm. The king shook Grimmjow off, and then kicked the panther across the floor, landing next to the child Nel. The two hollows looked at each other in sadness. They wouldn't last much longer.

The King made to connect his fist with the hollow boy once again, when he was suddenly and violently thrust backwards. Before him was an immense blue flame surrounded by a white light. "Ao Hinotori Hakka Suru!" the voice of Orihime shouted and from her blade formed the blue phoenix. As she flashed towards her man, she called for her sword, and converted into her samurai form. "Sōten Kisshun!" she called as she kept her blue phoenix out, to keep the Reiō at bay while she did her best to heal Ulquiorra.

"Daughter, you would protect this creature, before your own father?!" the King sounded outraged.

"You might very well be the father of the soul I possess, but that is where our familiarity ends," Orihime shouted at him. "And this MAN is not some creature. He is much more than that." She walked closer to Ulquiorra. "He is my lover, my friend… and my husband!"

Three years in the inner world…

Ulquiorra was sitting by the bank of the river, watching his woman as she skipped across the silvery water. She was stunning, and he could think of nothing he'd rather do then spend the rest of his life seeing her smile. She looked up at him then, she had the look of a woman fully gratified with her existence.

"Ulquiorra…?" Orihime called as she made her way to him. "What were you thinking just now?"

"Just that, I want to see your smile," he told his lover. As she crept on her knees when she reached the edge, Ulquiorra crawled to her as well. They met with a passionate kiss. They both sighed in satisfaction at the caress. "Would you stay with me…" he said when they broke away from each other.

"Of course I will," she proclaimed. She started to pull his top from him, but he stopped her.

"Wait, I am asking you a serious question," the Espada pulled his woman in close and asked her again. "What I'm saying is… would you be with me, forever. Until this life ends and even after?"

Orihime sucked in a hasty breath and brought her hand to her lips. She blinked back the tears that threatened to ruin her moment with this man. When she composed herself again she placed one hand over his heart and the other over hers. She then gave him the only answer she could, "I will, I am and I will always be… yours, Ulquiorra."

Ulquiorra did the same and repeated her words, "I will, I am and will always be yours, Orihime."

In that moment a light passed through the hands that were placed on each other's hearts, green energy passed into Orihime, while orange energy passed into Ulquiorra. They fell into another embrace and made love to each other there on the bank. When they woke from the slumber that came after, a new grove of fruit trees emerged on the other side of the river. Horou and Kanzen came running up the river from the home they shared in this world. They had huge smiles on their faces and began yelling at the couple on the river, "Congratulations!"

The surprised couple barely had time to cover themselves before Kanzen jumped his master. "You sonovabitch! I didn't think you had it in you!"

Horou sat at their side and smiled wide, "I am so very happy for you both."

"What in the world are you talking about?" Orihime asked of them.

The hollow couple looked at each other, then back at Orihime and Ulquiorra. "You two just combined your souls together… for eternity! You're married in this life and all others!" Kanzen explained. "And that also means… Horou is mine forever! Wooooohooooo!" With that explosion of emotion he threw himself at the hollow princess, tackling her to the grass, and kissing her soundly.

"Goodness, you foolish man! You were always mine anyway!" she told her lover and pulled him in close with her hands around his neck.

"Wait," Ulquiorra was enquiring now. "We what? We're… married?"

Orihime's eyes widen in amazement and then softened into large saucers of elation. "We will always be married to each other… In every life we will find each other, fall in love, and be together."

Kanzen leaned in close to his master and whispered into his ear, "Bro… she's quicker than you, you know that?"

Ulquiorra soundly elbowed his counterpart in the ribs, but smiled widely. He liked this idea. She would be his, and he hers, until time no longer existed. He pulled her close to him, and spoke softly in her ear, "I love you, Tsuma."

"I love you, Otto," she said back to him. Closing the gap between their lips they shared another impassioned kiss.

The princess bent herself closer to Ulquiorra; she was having trouble mending the gash at his side. She lean over him, and grasped his outstretched hand. "I… I can't heal you fast enough," she informed the Cero.

"I know, Tsuma," Ulquiorra voiced to her. "I never expected to make it out of here. I just wanted you free."

"You… you're going to leave me again!?" she said as her tears fell. She looked into her husband's eyes and saw that he clearly expected all this. Orihime knew she was supposed to keep her anger in check, but at this moment there would be no controlling it. Her skin began to heat up.

"No, Onna! You can't!" Ulquiorra yelled at his wife. He knew what was about to happen, he'd already experienced this volatile side to her. He didn't want her to go through the hell of the last year again. "Please, calm yourself, Orihime."

"How can you ask that of me!?" Orihime screamed. Her reiatsu began to flame higher, she singed Ulquiorra's hand. She turned now towards the Soul King, who was rising from the floor his daughter slammed him on.

"I promised to return you here, to your mother. That is what I plan to do," he told his daughter.

"STOP!" screamed the mother of Takako, as she entered the chamber. She finally understood what her daughter had told her, and she needed to stop the King. But she came too late.

The Reiō pulled Ulquiorra's soul from his body. Orihime fell to the ground, as he did this. From her body emerged a green light. When it left her, Orihime's body burst into a purple flame. The Soul King looked on in bafflement, "What did you do?" he asked of her now. The Soul King raced to his daughter's side, lifting her into his arms. "Takako, what did you do?"

"You will not go alone, Ulquiorra." She said to the body of her husband on the floor. Her eyes now turned to the Soul King. From the purple flame rose the dragon and it cried a sorrowful sound. It swirled around the body of Orihime, and elevated her from her father's arms. It spun faster creating a ball of flame, which surged and erupted around the courtroom. The essence that was inside Inoue Orihime surged out, it was the soul of Takako. The form the women took was that of the phoenix that was atop Las Noches. She had her frothy wings, her duel colored orange and red eyes. The yellow lamellar amour and the purple flame that surrounded them, beside them both was Horou. Horou spoke, and held the voices of all the women.

The Soul King's eyes widened in disbelief, of all these women, only Horou reminded him of Takako the most. "Takako? You… did become a hollow," his voiced choked on his every word.

All the memories came rushing back to Horou in that moment, her time as this soul's daughter, her transgression upon the old man, and her time as Inoue Takako. After so long she was able to voice her sorrow and her reasoning. "I was made hollow when I left your realm," she informed him. "Father, I have never blamed you for sending me away. I stayed with this family for these decades, to find the one I had wronged," she said to the Reiō. "I was pained at having been so careless with my power." She walked to the king now, as she moved the phoenix moved with her. She stood before her father. "When Orihime found Ulquiorra, our hearts knew before our reason did; what we were to each other. When we were wounded by his suffering at our hands, we imparted our soul into his." Horou bent to her father now, and grasped his hands. "When he was returned to us, we wanted nothing more than to seal our lives to each other." The hollow princess gave the king a meaningful look, conveying him to understand her words.

"You… soul bonded? With the hollow?" he asked of his child. At her nod he lowered his head in sadness. A soul bond was something even he couldn't break. They each dedicated part of their essence into the others'. To kill one, would be to kill the other. They can never be separated. From his side Miki wept, and he pulled her into his arms. "I'm sorry, love. I didn't know," he told the mother of his child.

"Give it back," she told the King. "Give him the essence back, Reiō. If you don't she will be incomplete, and be a hollow forever." She begged the Soul King, "I'd rather have my daughter be half hollow and able to be seen. Then a full hollow and never get a chance to glimpsed her again."

The king reached out to his daughter, in his hand he held the essence that was taken from the hollow boy. Horou took her father's hand and the soul within it, closed her eyes and stretched her other towards her husband's body. The purple flamed phoenix and dragon blazed hotter and higher. She swirled around the clasped hands, and then merged with Horou. From the hands illuminated the orange glow of Orihime's power, in the mixture of energy was a green light. Ulquiorra's body was lifted off the ground as his essence was returned to him.

When it was done, the princess rested his body back to the ground. She then walked to the two hollows that were succumbing to the King's nullification. She removed the Reiō's curse from them, and both were returned to their former natures. Nelliel was back to her adult form, and Grimmjow was no longer the Adjuchas panther. The two hollows embraced, and suddenly a yellow light caught both of them and they were taken out of the Soul King's Palace.

The Soul King's face grimaced at the sight. "Urahara Kisuke! He planned this whole thing out, didn't he!?" Miki grabbed her lover, and shook her head.

"No more, Reiō," she pleaded. She brought her hands to his face and said, "This is enough, my love. Let this go, so we can finally have peace." The King looked at his woman, and nodded.

Orihime was returned to her human form and held Ulquiorra's head in her lap. Green eyes met the slate ones, when they opened once more. "You are never going to be alone again, so don't think you can give me up so easy!" she hissed at him. She lowered her lips to his and kissed him zealously.

He brought his hand up to stroke her cheek, and then threaded his fingers into her hair. When she lifted her face from his, he was able to speak, "Tsuma, you're free. That was all I wanted."

"Daughter?" the Soul King turned to Orihime. "If you wish to go, I will send you back to the world of the living. However, when I call for you in the future, I hope that you come without trepidation."

"I will appear Reiō, as long as you understand my husband will join me," she told the King. The King nodded his agreement, and raised his arm at the pair. When he flicked his wrist, the couple was sent back down to the human world.

"You have no choice now but to accept the boy," the courtesan told the king.

"That is true, considering he holds not only my daughter's heart, but my grandchildren's as well," The Soul King announced. "Speaking of grandchildren, I need to have word sent to my good for nothing son, Shiba Isshin!"
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