Hi! Welcome to my first fan-fict! *LE GASP* This idea has been rattling around in my weird baby brain but finally
managed to throw it all up onto Open Office and finish the first chapter. Well...it was loooooong. 9 pages or so but
made it into chapters so in the future i could publish it onto here! :D
Ichigo had been in a hit-and-run and went into a coma when he was admitted into the hospital. Now a
distressed and devoted Grimmjow spends his time waiting for when his strawberry would wake up and all will be right in the world.
But for now...Ichigo sleeps.
He had been in a coma for almost 2 years now...and the doctor said he showed no signs of ever waking up. Bullshit I say. Ichi was a fighter when he was awake of course he's going to be one when his eyes are closed. Stupid doctors, don't know what the fuck they're saying...I don't trust anyone that wears white. Grimmjow looked at his sleeping strawberry and held his hand, as he always did when he came to visit him.
"Hey punk...when d'ya think yer gonna wake up? I'm getting' tired of waitin' fer yer to open yer eyes...naw...that's a lie."
Grimm could feel a lump well up in his throat and fresh tears stinging his eyes. He took a quick deep breath and ran his hands through his hair looking down at Ichigo.
" I...I'd actually wait...fer...fer a long time Ichi. If its fer you...ya I'd wait, no fuckin' questions asked." Grimm looked to Ichigo and hung his head placing it in his hands.
"C'mon Ichi...wake up. Ya need ta wake up..." Grimm whispered desperately.
And...as usual Ichigo didn't.
Grimmjow left the hospital and waited for a taxi to pull into the small loop near the hospital entrance. The weather was glum and fog rolled in non-stop hitting Grimmjow with a cold burst of wind. He could even smell the rain coming, pulling up the hood from his jacket as he waited for the taxi frowning. It was raining when it all happened...when Ichigo was in that horrible accident that caused him to lie in a hospital for 2 years. Ichigo and Grimmjow were walking home, coming back after spending most of the night at a bar. As they were crossing the street a screech could be heard down the block and a car came speeding down the road heading straight for them. Grimmjow was about to throw his strawberry out of the way but Ichigo's reflexes were a couple seconds faster and pushed Grimm out of the way first. It actually ticked Grimm off that Ichigo's reflexes were sharper than his. And as Grimm tumbled off to the side he would never forget the horrible loud thud of the car hitting his Ichigo; the sound of shattering glass, horrible smell of burnt rubber, and the hollow thud of denting metal...and the thud of Ichigo's body hitting the pavement. Grimm never cried as hard as he did than that night at the hospital when Ichigo went into the ICU, and he was never so angry in his life before. When he was forced to go home, he broke almost everything that he saw, and he broke more shit when he knew that his berry would flip a bitch after finding out everything was in pieces. Then not soon after he felt bad, knowing Ichi would clean up after just coming out of the hospital so Grimm cleaned up and bought new shit to replace the old shit he broke. Grimmjow knew he was going in an insane spiral and so he decided to just go and see Ichi everyday rather than avoid the problem, and if Ichi woke up without seeing him there, he would kick his ass. Tch, punk probably could even with his eyes closed.
Grimmjow was snapped out of his reverie when a taxi pulled up and called out to him.
"Sir? You waiting for me or for someone else?"
"Tch, naw just waitin' in the damn cold for a fairie ta sprinkle pixie dust all over me ta fly me home. Yea I was waitin' fer ya!" Grimmjow opened the door to the taxi and got in.
"...Rough day i'm guessing." Taxi guy said, not in a snarky way but in an understanding tone and it pissed Grimmjow off.
"My business is my own so don't get all wise on me just cause i'm commin' outta the hospital. Just take me where I got ta go and do yer job."
The taxi driver didn't even respond or look like he wanted to say anything. He was practically oozing an aura of knowing. Grimmjow just sat back and glared out the window, hating the driver and thinking of ways to beat the knowing outta him. This was getting bad...he needed Ichi to wake up. A while later, the taxi dropped Grimm off at his and Ichis' apartment.
"Don't expect a tip." Grimmjow said immediately when the taxi stopped.
"Don't expect to pay. It's on me." He said calmly.
"Fine, I ain't gonna say no ta a free ride. See ya...prick." Grimmjow muttered the last part under his breath and got out of the cab. He walked up to the apartment complex and checked the mail, noticing that a box was near the entrance. Out of curiosity he looked inside the box and saw 3 kittens curled up into one another trying to get warm.
"Da fuck...who'd do this heartless shit?"
One of the kittens looked up at Grimmjow and blinked a bit before letting out a high pitched mew and shook because it was so cold. It's siblings, hearing the distressed call woke up too and looked up at Grimm. They too let out a high pitched mew that tugged at Grimmjows' heartstrings. He carefully picked up the box and took it inside, running up the stairs to get to his apartment and fumbled with the keys. He quickly made a makeshift border in the middle of his bed and let the kittens walk on the bed. They sniffed around and clumsily walked around meowing up a storm and Grimmjow couldn't help but smirk in amusement. He wiggled his finger a bit at them and noticed they were sucking and nibbling on his finger and meowing when nothing happened.
"Oh...right...ya must be hungry. Um...milk? Shit...I didn't really think this through. Hold up..." then he realized he was talking to kittens and cursed at himself at his stupidity. He reached for his cell in his pocket and called someone he knew would be an expert at this kind of thing.
A while later, Rukia was ringing the bell to come in. The cats jumped slightly at the irritating noise and meowed in distress.
"Calm down...it's just ya surrogate momma." Grimm got up and opened the door to let Rukia in with a big ass cat carrier.
"I said ta bring a cat, not a fuckin' mountain lion."
She looked at him in annoyance and lugged the cat carrier with two hands.
"Mind helping me though? She's heavy."
Grimmjow took the carrier and almost tripped, fuck yeah it was heavy! How the hell could a small ass woman carry that when he could barely carry it himself? Not that he'd say that shit out loud.
"She was the only one I could get right away, since she just had cubs. A few of them are with her, otherwise I would not be alive." she said sitting down tiredly, fanning herself.
Grimmjow suddenly got wary. "She...isn't gonna eat the kittens is she? Cuz if she is then shes got ta get the fuck out."
Rukia sighed in frustration, stopping her fanning motion.
"No Grimmjow, she wont. Her maternal instincts are as high as ever, if anything she'll treat them just like her own. It's when the cubs get older that it starts to wear off. But the kittens should be weaned off by then. We could even use formula if need be."
"Alright...so...what...how do we get em ta feed?"
"Where are they?" Rukia asked, reaching to open the carrier.
"In the bedroom." he said, getting up to go towards the bedroom door.
Rukia looked at Grimmjow in surprise.
"You're...you mean...?"
Grimmjow looked at her like she was fucking nuts when he realized why she was so surprised. He hadn't been in his and Ichi's room since...since that night. He didn't even think twice when he opened the door to use the bed for the kittens. He looked at the bedroom like it was the most hardest thing to go into at the moment and it felt like the walls were closing in on him.
"Holy...shit." He breathed and swayed to the side, hitting the coffee table, knocking it over.
"Grimm!" Rukia yelled out and ran to him, trying to support him into a sitting up position.
"I...I didn't even...fuckin' think about...any of that." he whispered.
"I'm so sorry Grimm, I didn't even...I should have just kept my big mouth shut. I'm so sorry."
Grimmjow shook his head and shook off her arm from him. He propped himself up against the couch and ran a shaky hand through his hair. Ichi...used to do...ah fuck.
"The kittens are on the bed..." Grimmjow said quietly.
Rukia immediately got up and took the carrier into the room leaving Grimm to recollect himself. He took a deep breath and closed his eyes trying to calm down. How long was this going to go on...was...Ichi really gone? Would he really never wake up? Grimmjows' chest hurt at the thought of it, of never seeing his strawberry smile, laugh, yell, or say his name? Grimmjow could never thank him for saving his life, and yelling at him for risking his life to do so. Tears began forming in his eyes and he brought his arm to cover his face, gritting his teeth.
"Ichigo..." he whispered in pain, and let the tears fall.
Rukia waited on the bed and worriedly looked at the doorway that led to the living room where Grimmjow was. She knew he was taking this hard, it was tearing him apart inside, she could tell. Every time she would come to visit him he looked worse than before. She would have offered him some help advice, but when she did that a couple months after the accident he didn't talk to her for almost 2 months. She worried for him and what this was putting him through; physically, mentally and emotionally. She let the kittens feed off from the surrogate mother and watched them, mind wandering to Ichigo. True...he was a strong, stubborn, hero-complexed, hot-headed guy...but it's been 2 years, and if this is how Ichigo was going to live form now on, the humane thing to do was to let him go. Rukia could feel the sting of tears behind her eyes and she buried her head into the bed, shutting her eyes. She would miss him, all of his friends would miss him, Grimmjow would miss him most of all that was a sure thing. She let the tears fall and clutched the spot over her heart, trying to keep her sobs quiet.
A while later Rukia came out of the room, eyes a bit red and she kept wiping her eyes.
"Um..Grimm?" her voice thick with emotion.
He looked up at her, his eyes just the same as hers.
"The...the uh kittens are sleeping now with the mom. You should um...bring em by the vet clinic tomorrow so I can properly look at em. For now they just need to be fed, warm and set up a small area for them to go to the bathroom."
"Thanks...Rukia." he said getting up.
"You can keep the carrier so you can transport them to me tomorrow. Come around noon on my lunch break ok?"
He nodded again.
She smiled sadly and hugged him gently.
"Get some rest Grimm...you look like shit." she muttered before she let go of him and left the apartment.
He gave a small chuckle and locked the door behind her, turning to face the empty apartment. He took a deep breath and slowly made his way to the bedroom, standing in the door way. The kittens were asleep, curled up with their surrogate mother, the mother kitten lifting her head to look at Grimmjow. She looked him up and down making sure he didn't pose a threat and let out a small meow and laid her head back down to clean her kittens. He slowly took a step in and approached the bed, sitting on the edge looking at the kittens. They were asleep and laying on top of one another, purring and had groom-hair due to the mother licking them clean. He allowed himself a small smile and petted them gently, making the purring go as loud as a motorboat and he smiled more.
Then he remembered that Rukia would be expecting him at the clinic tomorrow so he put some towels inside and put some paper towels on the wooden part of the floor to catch any mistakes the kittens would make. He set up a water bowl for the mom and realized he had no food for her. He scratched his head and looked around until he saw a small bag of cat food near the door. He poured some into a bowl and set it next to the water bowl. He looked at the makeshift get up for the momma cat and was satisfied, tomorrow he'd get the rest of the stuff from Rukia.
Grimmjow went into his room, former guest bedroom, and decided to take a long warm shower to calm himself. Tomorrow would be a busy day.