Warning: Hinted MxM. That is all.

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Written Notes

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Ichigo loses himself through the soothing melody of the piano, now.

His words are scribbles against a yellowed paper, with red ink marring the surface. He writes songs instead of how he feels, and the melodies are often melancholy as the night of Hueco Mundo, but when his songs carry a happy note, Sousuke Aizen smiles wider.

Ulquiorra periodically visits him to watch what he does; offer comments here and there, sometimes compliments for his latest arrangements. He talks more with Ichigo than anyone else, because Ichigo smiles when he has company. He lost his ability to judge long ago.

Grimmjow frequently visits him to mock what he has become, but in rare moments he also talks about his life before a Hollow – he remembers more than his other counterparts. Ichigo quickly becomes his confidant, and for the first time as a Hollow, Grimmjow learns how to place his trust.

Neliel clings to him as much as she could, and Ichigo takes care of her better than anybody else. Most of the happy songs are dedicated to her.

His hollow and Zangetsu are like his friends, now, while his friends RenjiRukia Ishida SadoIkkakuKenpachiMizuiroKeigo and the rest and his family Isshin Karin Yuzu and Masaki are memories he can't remember very well.

But he remembers his mother, and the Arrancars sometimes are at a loss when Ichigo cries, through nights of rain and thunder. On these nights, his Hollow soothes him to sleep.

Orihime doesn't talk to him anymore. She lies in a coffin, in a show of extreme denial of what Ichigo has become. She could never reject the love of her life, and it overwhelmed her to the point that she buried herself a tomb.

Ichigo still visits her time to time, giving her dead flowers because she's dead, and live ones are for his well and alive friends – or so he reasons. Aizen was displeased over the turn of events, but Ichigo was a greater prize.

Ichimaru Gin loves to have dinner with him, and they talk late into the night, about fighting and philosophical things, love, hate; Hueco Mundo's eternal night. Ichigo brings out his eyes more often than any other who has ever tried – except for Matsumoto Rangiku, Sousuke Aizen, and Ichigo's fellow friend – Izuru Kira.

He sometimes passes the blond through the corridors, and Kira loves to feed him chocolates.

And Sousuke Aizen loves to feel Ichigo against him, loves his songs of melancholy and sadness and happiness found in oblivion, made sure that Ichigo had enough red ink to stain yellowing pages of his endless diary – endless because this world was forever, as Aizen was God in his world, and he could never deny it anymore.

Time was relative and pointless for everyone he knew and Aizen made sure that he always remembered with his loving smiles and the way he sometimes appeared to be human, showing split second of emotions –

While Ichigo goes through this painless void he called paradise, where everyone he knew loved him and he loved them, that others called a blissful insanity.

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A/N: I wrote the draft with red ink in yellow pages. X3 Have a nice day everyone!