AN: This is my first fan fiction so please be nice. This is yaoi which means a male x male pairing. Please don't flame. You have been warned. I don't own Bleach. If I did then it will be chock full of yaoi yummyness. It's owned by Tite Kubo.

Oh and it is AU. GrimmIchi main pairing but many other pairings will be involved also. May contain NonCon, dark themes, action, swearing, lemons in later chapters and Guy on Guy sex. Don't like? Don't read.

This chapter will set the scene for the fan fiction. Sorry for any OOCness but I will try to show the characters.

I don't have a beta reader yet so I apologise if it is rubbish, spelling mistakes or typos. Please Rate and Review. I would very much appreciate it and you will be rewarded with cookies!

Chapter One

A crossing of paths

Ichigo walked along the corridors of Karakura Town High School. A hand stuck in his pocket, the other holding his bento and his face in it's usual scowl. Even though his friends were talking around him, he didn't hear a single word. Too occupied with his own thoughts. The corridors were full with students passing from their classrooms to wherever they were going for their lunch. Ichigo's group were heading for the roof as usual. As they did every other day. Nothing out of the usual there.

Though the corridor had been full of the noise of dozens of students talking, they grew silent as everyone shut up in the middle of sentences. Words even. The sudden quietness snapped Ichigo out of his thoughts long enough to realise what was going on.

Walking like they owned the place, a group of students sauntered along the hallowed halls of the high school. The Espada. The group of students who seemed to break all the rules but get caught for none. The trouble makers who were above the system for some reason that escaped Ichigo. To be honest they infuriated Ichigo. Most teachers saw him as a reluctant student. One to keep an eye on thanks to his natural orange hair that they thought must be bleached. Also his past of getting into various fights would give a bad impression to many teachers and students alike. However this wasn't the case. Ichigo was no delinquent. He got good grades and even was placed as the 23rd in his whole year.

Yet here was a group of students that everyone knew that they broke every rule in the rulebook but got away with it. To Ichigo it just wasn't fair.

At the front of the group, the one who led the rest, was Aizen Sosuke. Devilishy handsome, smart and cunning. So many good points but so many bad points outweighed them. He had a major god complex. Thought he was the king of the world. Thought he ruled the school. Which he kind of did but Ichigo was definitely not a loyal follower. Just behind Aizen, on either side, were Gin Ichimaru and Kaname Tosen. Aizen's two top minions. Gin would always have that fox like grin on his face and Kaname…well Kaname was hard to figure out.

Next was Ulquiorra Cifer. The emo boy. Strangely devoted to Aizen. He even called his Aizen-sama. This was not the only weird thing about the boy. He was amazingly intelligent. Scored top on all the tests. However he always remained quiet and pensive. A people watcher. He was brilliant at getting information on people. He would observe them quietly until he knew everything then report back to his Aizen-sama.

On the left of Uliquiorra was Nnoitra. You thought Ulquiorra was weird. This guy took the biscuit. So freaky with that grin of his. Anyone would feel uneasy when Nnoitra looked at you.

Behind them were Neliel, Stark, Haribel and Syazel. They along with a few others who must have been doing something else completed the group.

Ichigo looked away for a second. Thinking that that was everyone in the Espada that he was going to see at that moment until he heard a laugh that he recognized. His head shot back and a few seconds behind the others was Grimmjow Jaegerjaques. The braun and muscles of Aizen's little group. Now this guy was a delinquent, a trouble maker of the highest order. He would get first place if they gave medals out for that type of thing. Grimmjow Jaegerjaques was the one person that Ichigo hated the most.

His ice blue hair that Ichigo was sure was bleached shone slightly as the sunlight through the windows fell onto it. Everyone knew that Grimmjow bleached his hair to match his startling blue eyes, also it helped him scare the shit out of people as well as making him look even more good looking.

Reason number one of why Ichigo Kurosaki hated Grimmjow Jaegerjaques. Grimmjow was very popular with the girls and even some guys would fall for the blue haired gang member. With his good looks and savage nature he appealed to people somehow. It escaped Ichigo why such a brute would get so many love confessions. But he guessed that some people just wanted a bit of rough and ready sometimes. It wouldn't help if the guy had a body so fine that he was hotter than everyone in the school. Strong as well.

Reason number two of why Ichigo Kurosaki hated Grimmjow Jaegerjaques. The guy was strong. With muscles as hard as rocks the blue haired guy could fight most people and win. Ichigo would have to work out twice as hard as he usually did to get muscles like that. Grimmjow wasn't overly muscled but he still had them. Ichigo's body type was too lean to possess muscles like that.

Grimmjow was grinning wickedly as he strode down the corridor. His feet hitting the linoleum floor of the school. Ichigo could even hear some girls squealing behind him. He rolled his eyes and carried on walking. Leaving his friends behind as they stood and gawked for a few seconds before snapping out of it and following Ichigo.

Grimmjow and Ichigo passed each other and as their eyes met both glared at the other. No love was lost here. Grimmjow glared but grinned sadistically. It had been such a long time since he saw someone that actually looked like he wanted to fight with Grimmjow. Though he was certain that carrot top wouldn't stand a chance. It was good to see someone who wasn't either flirting with him or looking like they were about to shit themselves.

Brown eyes met blue ones in a fight of gazes. The chocolate eyes of Ichigo were the first to pull away though it felt as if they had exchanged fire between them. Grimmjow watched as Ichigo and his friends walked confidently past the group. He stopped and turned to prolong his view of the nonchalant teen and the group of friends.

Noticing his comrade stop, Ulquiorra stopped walking and stood next to the grinning gang member.

"Ichigo Kurosaki. Interesting for you to notice him Grimmjow." Ulquiorra said as he watched the group walk away.

"Why is it interesting emo boy?" Grimmjow asked the long, black haired boy. 'Strawberry?' He thought but kept this to himself.

"Because he used to fight seriously. Past tense." Ulquiorra replied.

Grimmjow frowned for a few seconds as this revelation made it's appearance. But as Ichigo and his friends disappeared around a corner the same shit eating grin appeared back on his face.

"Well if anyone was going to make the Berry boy fight it would be me." Grimmjow grinned at the memory of Ichigo with fire in his chocolate eyes.

"That is because anyone would be get annoyed enough by you to want to hit you Grimmjow." Ulquiorra retorted and received a seemingly playful hit from Grimmjow. Though Ulquiorra was sure that it would leave a bruise on his pale skin.

Ichigo sat absently minded, eating his bento. The air around him was filled with the easy banter of his friends, talking about anything that interested them. Video games, TV programmes, music, school and who fancied who. Usual teenage nonsense. To Ichigo it seemed that every other day there would be some new gossip that would go around the school and everyone would so interested in it. His friends weren't that bad, they didn't gossip but still he found it an effort to pay attention.

Ichigo didn't even look when Keigo squealed and began complaining that Ichigo didn't like his as a friend anymore. It was such an effort to make sure that people knew he was friends with them that he didn't bother. People knew that they were his friends so why did they have to be assured every five seconds? Had Keigo been talking to him for the past few minutes? Apparently so and Ichigo finally came out his self induced isolation to listen to what was being said. Though Keigo shut up when he saw Ichigo paying attention.

"Really?" Orihime asked. So pretty and kind that she always thought the best of people. Even if they had done wrong to her she would still help them out. The orange haired girl was always helping out people who had been injured.

"Yes really. Though I'm not surprised." Rukia responded. She smiled prettily at Orihime and the others. Her big indigo eyes dancing with amusement.

"Really? I am. He just never appeared to me that way."

"Orihime, you wouldn't have seen him that way if he came into school with a rainbow flag and a T-shirt that says 'I'm not gay but my boyfriend is!'."

Orihime chuckled and blushed a soft shade of pink which clashed nicely with her reddish gold locks. Everyone else laughed as well.

"Who's gay?" Ichigo asked. Sometimes he was worse than Orihime and could be so oblvious with things like this. Even Orihime had seen that Renji was gay. Ichigo had been the last to know, well he'd had to be told unlike everyone else who figured out that Renji was flying his flag with rainbow glitter.

"Stark." Uryu replied to Ichigo. Chad nodded and grunted his usual grunt.

"How did you find that out?"

"He asked me out." Replied a now blushing Renji who was sitting next to Ichigo.

"Haha so the pineapple head finally found someone deluded enough to be his boyfriend." Ichigo said instantly putting Renji at ease. In the beginning the redhead had thought that his best friend would not want to be his friend when he found out that Renji batted for the other team. Though it was quite the opposite. At first Ichigo had been shocked but quickly grew to accept it. Though he did say that there would be no more sleepovers and if the redhead ever tried to kiss him then he would make sure he could never kiss again. It was his way of accepting it.

"Well berry brain, don't worry someone will want to pop-" Renji didn't get time to finish as Ichigo lunged for him. They fought playfully for a few minutes whilst the others rolled their eyes and went back to eating their lunches.

However they stopped as the bell signalling the end of lunch sounded. The group began to pack up their lunches as Renji grumbled about not being able to finish his lunch.

Renji and Ichigo always fought. It was the same as Ichigo usually having that scowl on his face or him laughing like a loony when he saw something ridiculous. It was the same as Renji grinning most the time. The usual, the norm.

However things never stayed the norm for very long.