Tsuki's POV
In the world of the living
(Many many years ago, many years before Ichigo was born. Tsuki and Ulquiorra is 6)
"Ulquiorra!" I cried. He looked up as I called his name. Ulquiorra was lying on the ground, five boys towered over him. They had been beating him with sticks and punching him, again. I ran over to them, my short dark blue hair swaying with my steps.
Ulquiorra and I had been friends for now. When I first met him, he was getting bullied. He never fought back and I couldn't fight the bullies; I was too weak. The bullying wasn't getting any better. Ulquiorra didn't have any parents so my mum took him in. My dad had died when I was 1 and I had no other siblings. So it was just me and my mum. I wiped away my tears.
"Stop bullying him!" I cried. I don't care if they hurt me. They can't hurt Ulquiorra, I won't let them! The bullies looked at each other and nodded. They were coming for me. I closed my eyes and waited for the impact. BAM!
I screamed as one of the bullies punched my stomach. I struggled to breathe. Then came more. The boys started hitting me with sticks and punching me everywhere. I gasped and coughed out blood. My whole body was bruised but I struggled to stay strong. In the end, I lay on the ground helplessly as they continued beating me.
Out of the corner of my eye, I saw Ulquiorra coming forward. The look in his eyes turned from scared to determined. SLAM!
My eyes widened. Ulquiorra just punched one of the bullies. The other bullies looked up in anger and charged at him. Nooo! I screamed in my head but something amazing happened.
Ulquiorra punched one of the boys!
* FLASHBACK *
It was another day after Ulquiorra got bullied. I helped wash his wounds. They were the usual scratches. Ulquiorra looked down guiltily.
“Thank you for helping me, Tsuki” he said. “I’m sorry.”
I shook my head at him. “Silly Ulquiorra. You don’t have to say sorry” I smiled at him gently. The edges of his mouth perked up a bit and I smiled at that. It was hard to get Ulquiorra to smile. He would only smile for me.
There was silence as I finished cleaning his scratches. Ulquiorra thanked me for the hundredth time. We stood up and I put my hands on his shoulders.
“Ulquiorra. You can’t keep letting them bully you. You have to stand up for yourself. They don’t have a right to hurt you. You are a human being just like them! You have feelings! Be strong! Ulquiorra! BE STRONG!” I yelled as tears slid down my cheek.
Ulquiorra just stared at me, his eyes widened. He was speechless.
“Please, Ulquiorra. Be strong for me” I whispered.
Finally he spoke. “I- I’ll try.” Then he gathered his composure and decided to be stronger. “I’ll try” he repeated more determinedly. I smiled
* END FLASHBACK *
I smiled at the memory and at Ulquiorra’s braveness. All the bullies jumped up and surrounded Ulquiorra. The boy that Ulquiorra punched started walking to Ulquiorra, glaring at him while Ulquiorra had his usual emotionless face. I frowned at what happened next.
“How dare you punch me, you freak!” the boy that got punched yelled.
“You loser!”
“Loner!”
“Go away and die!”
“No one wants you!”
“YOU FREAK!” The bullies started shouting. Ulquiorra lost his braveness and started crying.
YOU ARE READING
Return of the Espadas (Ichigo x OC x Grimmjow)
FanfictionAfter the winter war, Aizen is defeated so Ichigo and his friends, as well as Rukia, go back to Karakura Town. What they didn't know, was that the espadas survived somehow and are now living in the world of the living. The espadas erased the memory...
