Memento Mori: Chapter 4

Chapter 4:  "Your turn"

Location: Hueco Mundo


Date: One year earlier

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Location: Las Noches: The Main Kitchen.


Grimmjow POV

"WOWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!" Luna remarked as she twirled a little, as she viewed the kitchen all around.  

"Pssh...Why so excited? It's just a damn kitchen. Nothing Special."

Luna with a playful pained expression, repeated. "Just a kitchen!??! This is Kitchen is…" She then spread her arms out wide and spin around in a full circle and said aloud. "HUUUUGGE!!!"   

She giggled while she went  around the spacious kitchen and began to peek at all the cabinets. It was true, This room is indeed as almost as wide as Aizen's throne room and was filled with many cabinets filled with enormous amounts of  human and shinigami food. Of course, as to why the kitchen was so big. It was pretty fuckin obvious that there are about more than a thousand arrancar mouths to feed in Las Noches. Naturally the main kitchen was built this way on purpose. What I find pretty stupid is the name of this kitchen which is…what a fuckin surprise, "The Main Kitchen". What bothers me is that there are about five more of these "main" kitchens in Las Noches that are all the same size, filled with the same food, but are located in different places throughout Las Noches.

I began to sit myself on one of the kitchen tables  while Luna was searching through all the kitchen cabinets. Then after five minutes of searching she began to sit on top of the table beside me sighing.

"There's so much food around here! I just can't decide…Say what do you want to eat?! I'll cook! " She asked exicitedly.

I chuckled. "Tchh..If there's one thing that dirty bastard aka Aizen-bitch-sama  does right, it's he provides us with a lot of food."

Luna giggled. "That's good. I mean I was worried at first! I thought you guys had chopped off hollow legs, arms and heads in the cabinets!"

Grimmjow lifted his eyebrows. "Nah…we could eat them if we wanted too but the requires hunting outside of Las Noches. Most of us are lazy and eat the human food and although it's not as good as hollow food. Hell it's better than nothing. "

Luna nodded as her stomach growled loudly. "My Tummy! haha "

I lifted my eyebrows and smirked at her while she was rubbing her stomach. "Guess we better get started on cooking huh?"

Luna giggled as she began to stand up and bend over to the lower cabinet in front of where I was sitting. " I'll let you think about it for a moment. Say, I feel like eating some banana pancakes with strawberries on top. I'll get some bowls out of here. "

As she bent down searching and gathering some bowls, I began to check out her out from behind. Then right then and there, I had an idea. I began to stood up from the table and made my way toward her, kneeling beside her,  wanting to grab the sides of her waist and bring her close to me. Naturally, I would forcibly kiss her and see how long she can resist me until she would finally cave and kiss me back. As I began to reach for the sides of her waist-

"HERE IT IS! " Luna got out from the cabinent and turned around rapidly knocking me with a frying pan. She blinked and panicked.

"Grimmjow! Omg I didn't see you! Are you okay?!?! What were you doing beside me!?!"

"DAMN IT!" I began to massage my forehead which made me scowl more.

"GGAH!! I am sooo sorry!! Really, REALLY sorry! " Luna repeated as she began moving her hands out of panic.

She then got up,  grabbed a clean towel nearby, ran water to it, squeezed the towel, and quickly came  toward me.

"The hell you are you-"

Before I could finish my sentence, she knelt down in front of me, a barely an inch away from me.  She began to look at me with worried large golden brown eyes (which fuckin gave me a weird ass feeling in my stomach) and began to put the towel on my forehead and dabbing me with it.

"Oh…I am so sorry Grimmjow! I didn't mean to hurt you! "

She began to lean in closer inches away from my face, her eyes focusing on my forehead, while I sat there for a moment not saying one damn word.

I closed my eyes and scowled immediately, " Hurt? Me? Psshhh It takes more than a frying pan to hurt me, woman."

When I opened my eyes, I noticed Luna staring at me, with a certain look that gave me a weird vibe. I muttered while staring straight at her.  "Hey…stop frowning. I already said it doesn't hurt so quit giving me that look."

Luna leaned in closer to me and gently pressed her cool fingers on my forehead as I stared at her back. I noticed however, she wasn't really looking at me but staring off. You know, when people look directly at you but somehow you notice that they are spacing out or lost in thought. Well, that's what Luna was doing. Staring directly at me but not focusing on me. Her eyes, were wider than usual and full with such slight sadness all of a sudden.

The feeling in my stomach suddenly became worse and then I asked. "Luna?" With both hands I grabbed her arms which made her snap back to reality and gave me a small smile.

"S-S-Sorry. I just…don't like seeing anyone getting hurt."

She then noticed my arms were holding her elbows and she giggled.

"I must have been really out of it for you to have touch me, huh...hehe I'll make breakfast! I bet you are starved now huh? I know I am! Hey, Grimmjow can you cut some bananas and strawberries for me?!!? I think I'll make pancakes and some eggs and bacon! Since I totally haven't had dinner last night and I'm awfully hungery and- "

I looked at her for a moment as she kept on rambling obviously trying to avoid any questions about why she spaced out a few moments ago. Maybe it's all in my head. Maybe she's just an airhead and this usually happens to her in a daily bases. But looking back at her somewhat serious expression…her eyes full of slight sadness-

"Grimmjow?!?! You are looking at me all funny. You feeling okay?" Luna asked calmly while mixing something in a bowl.

I shrugged, " Course…Why wouldn't I be?"

Luna blinked for a moment and replied. "Well…I just hit you with a frying pan a few minutes ago..."

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Location: Las Noches: The Main Kitchen.


Luna's POV

I began preparing the pancake mixture while I asked Grimmjow if he could beat some eggs with a whisk. I began beating the pancake mixture and began thinking about earlier. The moment I saw Grimmjow's injury from the frying pan, something sparked in my head. It was totally weird. I wasn't really looking at the wound or Grimmjow but instead images.

Strange images. It started with a certain forest. There were about like ten images of a particular forest in different angles. Then there was an image of a little black shoe on the grass. The next image was an image of seeing rain. Finally was red marks all around an arm like the one I gave Grimmjow. In all my years I have lived as a hollow, I never ever scene forests or a black shoes…I have heard of forests through other hollows who had visited the human world but I never once been sent to the human world.

But, all hollows started off as human but most hollows have lived for so long, they tend to forget about their lives as a human. I mean I never really did remember how I got into Hueco Mundo. I woke up one day in my hollow form, not knowing where I was or how I got there. There was no time to think about the past because at that time, I was a female hollow who had to survive in a world full other aggressive hollows. Up until now, I never really gave much thought about my past since I had no memory of anything at all. Perhaps, I have lived too long to even remember if I ever had a past. The only thing I could remember was my name.

But…the images in my head…Perhaps they were nothing. Perhaps it was a dream. Maybe-

"Yo Luna, I'm done seasoning the eggs. Want bacon? I can cut some. " Grimmjow offered as he set the bowl next to me.

I nodded . "Sure. That's sounds good."

I began to add in the bananas my pancake mixture, and mixed  the ingredients again lost in thought again.

Or maybe I am starting to remember my past. You would think I would be happy remembering pieces of my past but I wasn't. Somehow, I got an eerie and negative faint feeling deep inside of me that is trying to warn me against remembering the images I saw.  Or maybe I just made up all in my head! After all, I have a pretty funny and wild imagination! However, I knew I couldn't ignore what I just saw…I couldn't…I just couldn't.

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Location: Main Kitchen

Grimmjow began chopping some bacon while noticing Luna hasn't said a word over five minutes. Normally he wouldn't give a fuck and didn't know her that well, he knew enough that she rambled on and on every three seconds. But after five minutes passed, Grimmjow couldn't understand why the hell he was annoyed at the fact that the room was too quiet. He repeatedly convinced himself it wasn't because he wanted to hear Luna's voice. After an additional five minutes of silence, Grimmjow slammed the knife down to see if Luna would respond. She didn't. He now was pissed.

"Hey!" Grimmjow asked harsher then he intended too.

Luna, surprised, almost lost control of the bowl and turned around slowly to face Grimmjow. "You scared me. What's up?"

Grimmjow eyes narrowed down to the floor. He didn't want to tell her directly that he wanted her to talk because well, that was pretty fuckin desperate in Grimmjow's mind. He wanted to start a conversation without really hinting he wanted to talk. Then Grimmjow thought of the perfect thing to bring up to Luna.

"It's your turn…" He started, making Luna confused. "Remember? We made deal earlier back in the room. You ask me a personal question if I ask you. Well, I wanna ask you something."

Luna stared at Grimmjow and smiled. "Sure. What do you wanna know?"

Grimmjow then flinched a little since he hadn't really thought about what he wanted to ask her. Grimmjow would usually love to take the chance to ask about her bra size, what kind of underwear she's wearing, or some sleazy pick up line. But he knew he couldn't freak her out…at least now anyway. Then Grimmjow thought of something.

"What and where exactly is your number tattoo? " Grimmjow asked Luna as he made his way toward her, while Luna looking up at him.

"My numero and hollow hole ? " Luna asked. "You mean my rank? "

Grimmjow nodded. " Yeah you know…Like mine here." Grimmjow then placed his hand over his lower abdomen, which made Luna lean a little to get a better look.

"See? I'm the sexta espada which means six. My tattoo is right here. " Grimmjow explained. "Every arrancar has one. You do too. What I wanna know is your rank and where it is since I can't see it. "

Luna giggled. " I see. Well that's easy."

Luna then began to lift the right side of the long skirt that covered her leg. Grimmjow was taken aback a little, thinking she was gonna undress herself slowly. However, Luna lifted the skirt fabric but only revealed white shorts under them. She then turned to her right side to Grimmjow and grabbed his hand.

"Hey woman what are you-" Grimmjow began, only to be caught off from Luna.

"I'm showing you…see?" Luna answered.

Luna then began to place his hand over her thigh. Grimmjow's face began to slightly blush the moment he felt the touch of her gentle soft skin but then felt a such a glowing warmth in her thigh. He then looked and saw a hollow hole there. Luna only gazed at it sadly smiling while Grimmjow noticed her expression and then muttered. "Where's your numero?

"Don't have one." Luna whispered.

Grimmjow's eyes widened for a moment. "What do you mean you don't have one? Every arrancar has one."

"Everyone but me. Aizen-sama says I am an extremely really rare high level arrancar who bears no numero. He said by reading my spirtual pressure that I am an level rank arrancar. He said I shouldn't worry about it...but I feel kinda weird that I don't have one.  "

Grimmjow began to take his hand away from her thigh which alarmed Luna immediately. She noticed the shock in his eyes and turned away, hurt by his look. Grimmjow saw her pained expression and tried to lift his hand to her but put it back down.

She began nervously saying. "I didn't mean to freak you out. I am...haha you know, just different. I know it's weird but that doesn't mea-"

"I'm not freaked out…" Grimmjow interrupted. " It's just I never seen a numeroless arrancar. That's all. But…er…"

Grimmjow blushed lightly but to his relief Luna didn't seem to notice his face but rather his words. "er…Thanks for showing me."

Luna smiled lightly. "Your welcome. Now that we finished with that…" Luna began to turn up the heat on the stove and took out a spatula. "I'M STARRRRRRVING! TIME TO COOK! "

Grimmjow chuckled. "Alright, Alright. "

As Luna turned her attention to the stove, Grimmjow quickly remembered her pained expression and began to feel hurt himself. Of course, Grimmjow denied this and convinced himself it was nothing but pity. However, deep inside his mind and chest, he knew it was much more than that. Or at least it was starting to turn that way.