[10 Feb] [Bleach] The Unverifiable Truth

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Title: The Unverifiable Truth

Day/Theme: 10 Feb/ I know it well, the nakedness of truth

Series: Bleach

Character: Ulquiorra.  Introspective 

Rating: T.

My eye sees everything.

The indignant and yet sad look on your face when I threatened to force feed you if only to keep you alive for Aizen-sama.

The faint glimmer of hope that you hurriedly masked when I broke the news of intruders in Hueco Mundo. 

The way your eyes widen in fear when you see me.  The way that fear has been changing in character over the past few meetings.  It is not something that I understand, but then again, what I do see leads me to suspect that neither do you.   


Nothing can escape it.

Not the way you gaze wistfully out over the vast expanse of pale desert when you think you are alone.

Not the unusual power you have of reversing the flow of time, which till now, I'd always believed was linear.

Not the protective way the boy with the orange hair looks at you, or the similary way in which you return his attention. 


What they do not see, does not exist.

You speak of the heart, as if you could see it.  Nurse it in your hand, still beating, alive and warm.  You say that it comforts you to know that your comrades and you are of one mind in supporting each other. 

You have no proof of this.  Only a baseless, unshakable belief, which somehow carries you through each of your battles.

It makes no sense.  My eye sees only the truth before it.  All else is idle fancy.  It is how I have always fought. 


Yet, now I see you standing before me, quite unafraid for yourself, asserting that what you cannot show me is the truth.  I cannot confirm the basis of your bravado. 

It is ridiculous of course.  Still, one cannot help but wonder sometimes at the strange misplaced faith of you humans.