Disclaimer: Bleach and its characters belong to Tite Kubo The Great, not me. Yet, I own the plot of the situations happening in this fiction though.

Spoil: Up' til chapter 291. If you have already knew Nel and her true form, there will be no spoiler for you.

Warning: Although I rate this story M, sex and violence aren't the focus of my story. It will be more about the character's daily life and romance. However, there are sexual references, talks about sex and sex-related jokes. There are mentions of death and violence will occur sometimes in the story. If you see M, and come to read this story hoping for hot sex scenes, you will probably be disappointed. There will be some sex scenes in the story after the romance is well developed (please be patience) but there aren't plenty and they won't be in details. As I said previously, sex isn't the point that I am focusing on. However, I would rate it M just to be safe because it still contains quite an amount of mature issues. By the way, main pairings in this story are Ichigo/Rukia, Grimmjow/Orihime and Ulquiorra/Orihime. (No, it isn't threesome but it is indeed a love triangle) If you don't like these pairings, don't read this.

Note: This is AU as no one but Tite Kubo knows how the war with Aizen would end. It is canon through chapter 291 (because Nel is included in this story). There will be further note at the end explaining some points in the story that you may be curious about.

Hope you will enjoy this story. Comments and Critics will be gladly welcomed.

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The air was thick with the smell and taste of blood. Countless bodies lied on the ground, their eyes were emptied. There was nothing left in sight apart from the deaths…

and two men who could still force themselves to stand.

"Kurosaki Ichigo, you are really much better than I had expecteds." Aizen gave the younger boy a smirk. "It is really a waste to kill a man with this much of talent. If only this can end another way"

Ichigo tried to look away from Chad's body and concentrate on the man in front of him. His body was heavy, almost too heavy to move, but he could probably force another move. He held Zangetsu tighter and prepared for one last attack.

"This is the only way it can end, Aizen"

RingRingRingRingRingRingRingRingRingRingRingRingRingRingRingRingRing

"Shut the fuck up, you stupid clock!"

Ichigo slammed his fist on the innocent alarm clock but didn't bother to get up. He kept lying on his bed thinking about the dream which he just had.

The war with Aizen had ended two years ago. Yet, it wasn't easy to just let it go. It never would be. He had lost too many. Orihime, Ishida, Renji and many others did survive. Yet, Chad and many others didn't. He remembered how Ikkaku's blood sprayed on his face as the bald shinigami's head was parted from the body. The image of Matsumoto, who was hugging Ichimaru before she gave a final blow that killed both of them, appeared in his dream every once in a while. The sad but relieved dying smile of Ichimaru, a fuckin creepy bastard who he never really liked, even struck in his mind.

But he had to move on.

Everyone lost something in that war. Many people had died willingly in order to help him finishing off Aizen in the end, and those people would be pissed off if he spent the rest of his life mourning over their death like an emo-bitch. All of them had chosen to fight and death wasn't something that they weren't prepared for.

However, that didn't make it any easier to cope with their death.

The first few months, he cried alone at night while tried to put on a fake happy face at school. It was the same with Orihime and Ishida, trying to pretend that they were fine. When the first year almost passed, he finally at least learned to enjoy life again. It was almost tearful when he found that he could actually laugh for the first time in many months.

Now that two years had past, he could deal with it a lot better than before. He could talk about it with Orihime and Ishida. Even though it was indeed sad to think about, it was no longer unbearable. At least, they could be themselves again without pretending.

But it would be better if only they could meet people from Soul Society again. It had been two years since he had met Rukia and others. He could understand that they were busy tidying up the damage that Aizen had done to Soul Society. Even Urahara was called back and his crime was pardoned due to the lack of people. However, it would be better if he could see them again. If it wasn't for the memory that he shared with them, how they tidied up the mess in the human's world was almost like they never existed in the first place. It was crap. He had fought together with them in such a war, and now they just disappeared from everybody's life.

He didn't even know why he bothered to buy that stupid rabbit doll when he spotted it at a shop some days before. It had been two years, what made him suddenly felt that he might see Rukia again?

"Crap…" he signed. He had to get this thing out of his head. A bath would take too long but a shower sounded fucking blissful.

He got up and walked into the bathroom. It wasn't until he stripped off his pajama that he sensed familiar spirit energy. Rukia? After two years of no contact? That would be too random. If some shinigamis were going to come to visit, they would probably notify him before hands. It might be hollow or something worse. Due to the effect from the war, many hollows had evolved into something that was surely not arrancars. They were stupider and less powerful than arrancars but still much more powerful than average hollows. However they somehow developed a favor to attack people with high spirit energy so his family was one of their favorite targets.

The source of this certain spirit energy was now in his house and there wasn't much time to think. Even worse, the energy quickly increased its amount. Yet, it wasn't really that similar to the new kind of hollows'. He wrapped himself with the nearest tower before rushing out to take a look.

When he reached the stair, he heard such a familiar voice. His heart beat faster in delight. There was no hollow but a friend who he had been longing to see. Rukia made a surprise visit!

However…

As he was turning back to the bathroom, the stupid stuffed lion doll known as Kon was speeding towards the stairs and hit him in the stomach hard enough to send both of them rolling down the stairs into the dining room.

Kon was over his face so he couldn't see anything but he could feel that people in the room were looking at his half-naked self (Thank God, he still had the tower!).

Shit… Rukia was surely going to laugh about this for the entire year!

"Nee-sannnnnn!!!" he could hear Kon beamed excitedly. However, the damn thing stopped for a second before beamed again. "Another sexy Nee-san???!!! God, I always know you are real!!!"

Another (sexy) woman?!!!

He threw Kon off his face (into the nearest bin) and looked at the table. His jaw dropped as he found the smirking Rukia (who was trying her best not to laugh insanely) and Nel.

Being seen by Rukia was bad enough; he didn't need another female to giggle about this certain accident!!!

"Ichigoooo!!! I miss you soooo muchhhh!!!"

Completely ignoring his naked state, Nel hugged him happily. He would be happy to see her too if it wasn't for a fact that he was naked and Nel's inhumanly strength was breaking his back.

"I know that you will be happy to see Rukia but I have absolutely no idea that you will go as far as uncivilly storming out of your bathroom with almost nothing on your body" another familiar voice spoke. To Ichigo's terror, he turned his face from Nel's breast to find Kuchiki Byakuya in his shinigami form sitting at another side of the table with his father (who was giving his own son a thumb-up for his current situation with Nel)

"Where is Karin and Yuzu?!" Yuzu couldn't really see Shinigamis but Karin could see them as clearly as he could. Thank God that Rukia came in a human form but how could he explain about Byakuya to his sister?

"Don't worry about it. I had already explained about the whole shinigami thing to them. They are taking it rather well" Isshin smiled like this situation was the most normal thing could ever happen. "By the way, they are talking to our other guests in the kitchen"

Other guests???!!!

His curiosity (and terror) was soon answered by a sneer which he had heard too many times two years ago. No… It couldn't be…

"I never know that you are such an exhibitionist"

"Grimmjow!!!"

The arrancar walked out of the kitchen to admire his shameful pose. As if things weren't worse enough. Grimmjow was also accompanied by Ulquiorra (who looked at him with a distasteful expression) and Orihime (who acted like she didn't know whether to cover her eyes or to look). Interestingly, they seemed to be in human form as their broken masks and their hollow holes were missing. Karin and Yuzu peeked out of the kitchen and couldn't stop themselves from giggling.

He really hated his life.

"What the hell are all you guys doing here!!!" For two years, they had disappeared from his life. Then they just suddenly had a surprise visit to laugh at him in his most absurd form. "Don't say that it is only because you feel like visiting me!"

"Nah… That's only one of the purposes although seeing you half-naked is clearly a bonus" Rukia laughed.

"Then, what's kind of fucking mission would involve bring these two bastards to my house!!! They are arrancars!!!... Ah… No offence on you thought, Nel" Ichigo made a further note to kill Kon brutally while trying to free himself from Nel's hug.

"They are betrayals" Byakuya added. "…although I am also not too happy with the fact that one of them (the man gave Grimmjow a threatening look) did try to kill Rukia"

One of the things Ichigo would never going to understand was Grimmjow and Ulquiorra's betrayal. When Aizen was going to kill Orihime, Ulquiorra interfered and took her to the Soul Society. Shortly after that, it seemed that Grimmjow had some problems with Aizen and left the side. It never made any sense to him. He could understand why Grimmjow betrayed Aizen. This guy wasn't the type to take anybody's order. However, he couldn't understand why Grimmjow ended up helping the Soul Society's side. It was also the same thing with Ulquiorra's case. While he was glad that the creepy bastard saved Orihime, it was suspicious why Ulquiorra decided to help her, considering the arrancer's loyalty to Aizen and the fact that he was the one who kidnapped her in the first place. After the war, the Soul Society locked them to investigate their motive. From the last time that Ichigo heard any new about them, Grimmjow and Ulquiorra still kept their mouths shut.

Nel was another arrancar who survived but this was a completely different case. He really felt that he could trust her. She may be an arrancar but her true nature was very honorable and warrior-like. He wasn't happy when she was locked up like the other two espadas but Rukia and Renji had promised him that they would make sure she got out as soon as possible.

Now Nel was freed and fine as well as these two bastards. Had the Soul Society lost their mind? How could they consider Grimmjow and Ulquiorra trustable?! They should be locked up somewhere else forever, not standing here freely in Karakura high school student uniform…

…Wait a minute…

"WHAT THE HELL ARE THEY DOING IN KARAKURA HIGHSCHOOL'S UNIFORM!!!"

Ichigo panicked at his latest notice. The three arrancars were in his high school uniform. He had a very bad omen that this had something to do with Rukia (or Byakuya)'s mission that sent her and these arrancars here.

"Considering your physical skill, your brain is painfully slow" Ulquiorra commented.

Ichigo looked at Orihime who smiled nerverously. Byakuya gave another death-threat glare to Grimmjow. His father and sisters tried their best not to spill the bean. Nel hugged him even tighter. Ulquiorra didn't seem to give anything a damn. Grimmjow glared back at Byakuya. Rukia smirked.

"Say hi to your new classmates"

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Author's note:

The first thing I would like to say is… English isn't my first language so if there are grammar mistakes, I am truly sorry about that. I have corrected some of them but I think that there are still some left. Hopefully, they won't affect your enjoyment. If you find some big mistakes, please feel free to notify me. I will be grateful.

About this certain plot… My version of what-would-happen-after-the-war-with-Aizen-end and what-would-happen-if-arrancars-come-to-live-in-human-world are probably a bit different from others. I am not really into angst and I definitely won't go this way. It is why I give the story the gap of two years after the war had ended. We all know that Ichigo and others would be sad and emo for a while after the war end (because they probably lose someone, or at least losing their innocence). I rather interest in how their lives would be after they have done enough of the grieving. For the arrancars, who were created for the sole purpose of fighting and it seemed to be the only thing that they knew about, they will be a bit clueless about human's way of life but they won't be too clueless. I interest in focusing more on how their feeling toward their human lives as well as their feeling for Orihime develop rather than the comedy side.

For Ichigo's daddy, I guess that he would probably come out to Ichigo sometime during the war. I don't think that he would do the same with Yuzu and Karin because he would fear that they may feel like trying to help, especially Karin. However, Karin would probably notice and suspect about it so it is why she takes the sudden shinigami-arrancar talk rather well. Yuzu is probably quite confused and a bit worried but still trying to keep her cool as she sees that Karin seems fine with it. I think it is Isshin's nature to suddenly explain things like that, and his children have learned to live with this long ago. After all, they are family.

If you wonder why only Orihime is presented at Ichigo house, not Ishida, I will explain it in the next chapters.

For Nel… I decide to include her because she is just so lovable!!! However, she will also have her own romance even thought it won't be the main focus of the story.

If somebody is curious about the name 'The Issue of Love and War' and wonders what war has to do with this story, the reason is mainly because, in this fiction, love is indeed the new 'war'.

The next update will be next week. Thank a lot for reading and reviewing.