TRICK OR TREAT

BONUS CHAPTER: GHOST COSPLAY

"Look! Look! Ulquiorra! There is a bat on that tree branch! It's so cute!"

Orihime sat and pointed her finger to another part of the tree. Meanwhile, Ulquiorra who sat next to her lazily moved his gaze following her pointing direction.

He didn't care much about the scene besides his woman.

"Are you sure that you don't want to come inside? They might be happy to see you too." Orihime asked and looked at him.

She glanced at the balcony. Her eyes followed to the room inside where the Halloween party between her friends was held. They appeared to be having some wild fun inside.

"My release form was scary enough to scare people." Ulquiorra remarked. He pulled her closer to him.

"Well, that's true, but I'm not scared though." Orihime giggly repeated the word she had told him before and smiled blushingly. "I think you looked magnificent in that form in a sense."

"In what sense?" He asked in curiosity. One of his eyebrows moved up slightly.

One of his hands reached to play with her hairs which had fallen out from her costume.

"Well, like Batman, The Dark Knight in the movie we saw yesterday?" Orihime hum and haw with her index finger waving around, but she managed to recall one.

"That trash didn't look deadly magnificent like me, woman." Ulquiorra replied with a sarcastic tone.

"Hehe." Orihime laughed. She was having fun. So was Ulquiorra.

She shifted her body to take Ulquiorra's hand that was playing with her hair. She held his tightly.

She was happy that he came back… came back to her.

"Don't move, woman! Unless you want to fall off." Ulquiorra reminded Orihime that they were on the tree right now.

"I'm sure that you will catch me though" Orihime said wittily.

"Woman" Ulquiorra gave out a sigh. He pulled her body onto his lap and held her tight.

Later, in the party house…

"Uwah. Ulquiorra, what's with your costume?" Tatsuki asked with a surprising voice.

She tried to identify whether he was Ulquiorra.

"Don't you have your eyes? It's a ghost." Ulquiorra who wore a white kimono said grumpily.

Around his forehead tied a white piece of triangular paper. It was a hitaikakushi for yūrei in Japanese folklore. He also had to force his hair growing longer to cover half of his face to fit the image.

The only missing may be some will-o'-the-wisps around him.

And on his head were…

"But why do you have to wear that ghost costume?" Tatsuki said and tried to restrain her laughter.

You were already a ghost, in any case. And why does your ghost costume have horns on the top?

"I thought you didn't like to dress up." She said with her almost teary eyes.

"If I didn't wear this one, the woman might request me to wear that tomato fairy costume over there." Ulquiorra pointed his finger at the only one costume left on the hanger. "I didn't have choice."

"But I thought you might look good in that tomato fairy costume." Said Orihime who was also a different kind of ghost came behind him shyly.

"Red wasn't my favorite color, woman." Ulquiorra sighed. "It wasn't."

Looking at her best friend and the boyfriend of her best friend exchanging glances, smiles and blushes to each other, Tatsuki smiled softly.

"What an odd pair! But they are hilariously cute together in a sense." She thought.

END.

Thank you for reading!

JinxJen's note:

Hitaikakushi is a white piece of triangular paper or cloth worn on the head by yūrei in Japanese folklore. Here is a reference link: (http://) (en.) (wikipedia.) (org/wiki/Hitaikakushi)

Yūrei are ghosts figures in Japanese folklore, analogous to Western legends of ghosts. Here is a reference link: (http://) (en.) (wikipedia.) (org/wiki/Y%C5%ABrei)

Yūrei are usually dressed in white, the white burial kimono. They sometimes have a hitaikakushi which is a small white triangular piece of cloth tied around the head. Hair for a yūrei is often long, black and disheveled. Yūrei are frequently depicted as being accompanied by a pair of floating flames or will o' the wisps (hitodama in Japanese) in eerie colors such as blue, green, or purple.

In Ulquiorra's case, he didn't have will-o'-the-wisps, but rather he had horns on his head. Ulquiorra's costume was a mix between yurei (ghost) and oni (demon) Because he's a demon ghost.