Author's Note: Alright, here's the alternate ending I said I was workin' on. I'm not really happy with it, but I hope you guys still like it :] I think it's pretty alright...

Dragon'sHost: Ah, thanks! I'm glad you liked the original ending. I wasn't sure if it would be okay, considerin' Ulqui was gone. Haha. Well then, that settles that. Thank you for the review~

JadeKurosaki: Thank you for reviewing! And I did make another. :]

Alternate Ending

A few years had passed by since Aizen's rebellion and being his captive. She was 18 now, and she had blossomed with the years. Little, by little did she stop being the same naïve, clueless girl back then and stunned her friends. They could hardly recognize her.

"Ugh…" Orihime mumbled as she heard the buzz of her doorbell. She checked her alarm clock and groaned, burrowing deeper into her covers. Who the heck was awake at six in the morning on the weekend! College stressed her out to the max; now she couldn't even sleep it off! Sensing that the person would not stop ringing the doorbell, she slipped on a robe, and lazily opened the door.

"H-Hello?" She asked as nicely as she could. She didn't have any time to make out the figure outside her home as the person bolted inside and smashed their lips on her. Alarmed and fully awake now, Orihime pulled away from the stranger a bit frightened now. "Who-!"

Emerald. Those familiar, intoxicating, emerald eyes were somehow staring back at her once more.

"No." She had no choice but to deny this; he died for crying out loud! How could he be standing here with her?

"You can't be alive, you can't be here!" Damn, she felt a tear slip out. So much for being strong, huh? "You're an illusion! Just a part of my mind…" She tried to convince herself more than her supposed figment of imagination.

"I highly doubt your mind is capable of such a thing, girl." He no longer had those dark lines on his face, he wasn't so ivory skinned, and his mask was gone. Was he really there…?

Tentatively, she poked his arm to make sure he wouldn't disappear. He didn't.

"Ulqui-!" As if on cue, he shoved her to his chest and he captured her lips in a sizzling, wanton kiss. She threw her arms around his neck and she kissed him back with as much desire. Her hands once more felt his ruffled hair that she never thought she would be able to do again. He pressed their bodies as close as they could be; he didn't care if neither could breathe. He desired her, she craved him; it was only right to fulfill those needs, right? He tugged at her robe, apparently wanting to dispose of it. She muffled her giggle and untied it. It was his lucky day to have her in a lacy, black, nightgown, above her knees. He approved of this with leaving kisses to her shoulder down her body. She practically melted. They were completely enwrapped in their ambiance of intense passion that they didn't notice they had received an audience.

"Holy shit. What a sight. I didn't know the bastard could actually do something like this."

"I didn't know an apathetic one could even comprehend how to kiss. This would have been good to study…"

"So, Ulquiorra get's the damn bitch? What the hell am I doing here, when I could get one too!"

Ulquiorra stopped his actions meanwhile Orihime buried her face in his jacket embarrassed, and he glared at them.

"If you have so much time to talk nonsense, I suppose you have enough of a mentality to leave?" His icy glare had said enough but it did nothing to stop Grimmjow, Nnoitra, and Szayel from whistling on their way out.

He swore he would kill every last one of them. However, wouldn't that be the easy way out?

Orihime laughed heartily as they left. "What? It was funny…" She muttered as Ulquiorra gave her the same look.

"It doesn't matter, anymore. I would like to get down to business though…"

"Business? How romantic."

"I've waited a very, long time and I could care less if it sounds romantic to you or not."

"You could try, you know?"

"And you could be quiet and let me finish claiming you…?"

Orihime could not respond to that; it made her feel like a pet or something. But she brushed it off deciding it was his way of his so-called affection.

"I better not have bite-marks after this."

"Ridiculous. As if biting is the only way to claim what's yours."

She was definitely at a loss of words, although, she didn't seem to really care. He could do whatever he wanted as long as he wouldn't vanish into thin air.

"Promise me."

"Another futile notion?"

"Ulquiorra."

"Always with the demands, I see."

"Please."

"I will never leave your side, even if it kills me."

She embraced him and smiled for the first time in awhile.

"If you break that promise I will get you."

"Now, you cause me to have second thoughts…"

She would never have to let him go, now. She didn't care what her friends would have to say to this; this was what she wanted.

And she just happened to want him.

A/N: I know I didn't exactly explain 'how' he came back, but it's just a different ending so I didn't really want to go into that much detail. Plus, he happened to have his hands full. Cx