Angel Song (Bleach Ulquihime)

I Can Hear Him Still

(Song is Dividely by kill Mr. Dj mashups. it's a mashup of new divide by Linkin Park, lovely by Billie Eilish ft Khalid, and Snuff by Slipknot. I don't usually list the song titles but being as I know a lot of people who have a very hard time with Snuff, I felt the need to mention it even though it is just the instrumental. I have seen mental breakdowns from just the opening notes. You have been warned).

Orihime woke up, the traces of her dream still at the edges of her vision. She couldn't remember a lot of details, but one thing was perfectly clear in her mind's eye.

Those green eyes, like emeralds. The snake-slit pupils. The contrast of his ice white skin with his raven hair. 

Orihime still dreamt of him. She didn't dare tell Ichigo. Not after everything.

She rolled over to her left to see Ichigo was still asleep, his faint snores interrupted only by the occasional murmur to himself.

I wonder if Kazui is still sleeping. I should go check on him, she thought, getting out of bed as quietly as she could.

Opening the door to her son's room, Orihime saw him passed out hard, blankets bunched around his feet and his sleep shirt half rolled up his stomach. She laughed and shut his door.

It was eight thirty on a Saturday morning. Ichigo was off for the day and Kazui was out of school for a break.

He'll be starting at KaraKura High next year. God, has it really been that long?

Her son was turning 14 soon. She had been 18 when she had him, the Quincy Blood War having been over for barely two years. Her and Ichigo had been hoping desperately for Kazui to be ordinary. No way in hell did they want him to witness what they had in high school. But Isshin had laughed at the concern. Orihime silently cried into her coffee as she remembered what her father-in-law had said.

"Ha! Normal? He's a descendant of the Shiba clan. Not only that, but have you met my son? Sorry, Orihime, but this kid's going to be some shade of something. No saying what yet."

And sure enough, Ichika was caught one night after taking Kazui to the Soul Society when he was nine. And sure, it nice to see Rukia and Renji again, but she was scared for her little boy.

And then two years later Szayelporro broke out of Hell and that mess happened. Things had thankfully been quiet since. And she prayed they would remain so.

"Morning, dear," Ichigo said, hugging her from behind and resting his chin on the top of his wife's head.

"Morning. What do you want for breakfast?"

"What I want is to cook it for you. You overwork yourself as it is, and I know you're having nightmares again."

She nodded. She had told Ichigo that she had been plagued by nightmares of her time in Huecco Mundo, which wasn't quite a lie. A common one was the time Nnoitra tried to assault her, and yet another was when Loly and Menoly came and beat her up because Aizen paid her more attention.

But she never finished the dreams when she recounted them to him. The second nightmare ended with Grimmjow kicking the crap out of the two female Arrancar and then taking her from her tower. The first one, however...

Nnoitra had come very close to actually violating her, had it not been for Ulquiorra arriving with her lunch. After a bit of fighting, Nnoitra had left. It was then that her caretaker had done something she'd never expect from him.

He comforted her, calmed her down, and they had gotten to know each other. The moment got to them, and before Orihime knew it, they were kissing. And then kissing became undressing, and that became sex.