A/N: Chapter two! Before you start reading I wanted to say that you shouldn't forget they're in a gigai, so their strength is less and their stamina is less as well. Both come closer to normal teens, who train a lot, than to arrancars. That was all I had to say. Have fun reading the story!

When he woke up the following morning he felt a comfortable warmth in his arms. He could feel the sun was already starting to rise. He opened his eyes, and the first thing he saw were two big emerald eyes staring at him. He was startled, but didn't move.

"Now you're finally awake, could you please release me?" Grimmjow then realized he had his arms around Ulquiorra and immediately retracted them. "Thanks, we'll have breakfast and then we'll start walking again." After he said this he stood up and walked out of the cave. Grimmjow was thoroughly embarrassed. Why did he have to wake up holding Ulquiorra? What's worse why did Ulquiorra have to wake up earlier than him? Well better forget it and focus on the rest of the day. It was probably going to be the same as yesterday, with less to no talking and breaks consisting of five minutes. Although they now had to walk a full day instead of one evening. Even Ulquiorra had to get tired sometimes, right? Apparently he was now stronger than the raven-haired teen otherwise Ulquiorra would've just freed himself when he woke up. Grimmjow stood up and got out of the cave, happy that for the first time since he had known the other he was stronger than him. He saw Ulquiorra sitting next to the lake, he was probably grabbing some food out of his bag.

"What's that?" Grimmjow pointed at the unidentifiable things the raven-haired teen was holding.

"This is our food, it is sandwiches." Grimmjow took another good look at the things, he supposed it could be sandwiches, if they were very very squashed.

"It looks gross, don't you have something edible?" Grimmjow looked up at Ulquiorra and saw the other looking irritated at him.

"It is emergency food, it's the only thing I have. If you don't want it, then eat nothing." Ulquiorra took a bite from his sandwich. Grimmjow waited a few moments, no Ulquiorra didn't die so they were edible. He grabbed one and tentatively took a bite. They didn't even taste as bad as he thought. Alright he'll admit it wasn't the tastiest thing he ever ate, but if by far wasn't the worst. They finished their breakfast in silence. Ulquiorra put the plastic, in which the sandwiches were wrapped back in the bag and stood up. He looked at Grimmjow before he started to walk away.

"You coming?" Grimmjow hastily stood up and ran after the other.

"Why do we need to get going so quickly already?" Grimmjow walked beside Ulquiorra, he wasn't so happy he needed to walk immediately after breakfast. "We just ate, couldn't we stay at the lake a little longer?"

"No, we need to get the tea leaves as soon as possible and bring them to Aizen-sama." Of course like Ulquiorra ever thought of something beside pleasing Aizen.

"We're in the middle of some forest, he can't hear you, so drop the honorific. It's irritating." Grimmjow didn't get an answer only a look that said: 'Shut up, or I'll shoot a cero through your head.' Grimmjow then decided to not push the matter further even though Ulquiorra couldn't fire a cero right now. Once again they walked in silence. He might have said being stuck with Ulquiorra wasn't so bad, but right now he was seriously starting to doubt it. With Nnoitra of Szayel he would at least have someone to talk to who would talk back, even though he couldn't stand them most of the time. He just wasn't so good with silence, so only naturally after an hour or so he would start talking again. He needed to otherwise he would get crazy through boredom.

"How many times have you been to the human world, Ulquiorra?"

"17 times, from which 10 were missions without gigai and 7 with." Then it made sense he had clothes already, while Grimmjow was stuck with those uncomfortable, and may he add, hideous clothes. He had already tripped at least twenty time! Stupid shoes.

"Oh." Silence again, geez why was Ulquiorra so hard to talk to? Oh yeah that's cause he only says the necessary things. "Where are we gonna sleep tonight?"

"I don't know yet, it depends on where we come tonight." Well on the bright side he hadn't said Grimmjow needed to sleep outside yet, which meant he might not be that mad about this morning. "But you'll definitely have to sleep outside." Damn!

"Can't you find a cave again?" Ulquiorra glared at him. Maybe that was not such a smart move… "A bigger one that is."

"No." Ulquiorra focused on the road, again. Ulquiorra must be really annoyed about this morning.

"Was it really that horrendous for you to wake up in my arms?" Ulquiorra tripped, yes tripped. Grimmjow hadn't even meant to say it out loud. Fortunate, or not, for Ulquiorra Grimmjow acted fast and caught him by his arm. Grimmjow turned Ulquiorra around so the teen was facing his chest.

"Now you're in my arms again." Grimmjow smirked when Ulquiorra immediately pushed away from him and continued walking. "What no comment?" Grimmjow laughed a bit at the raven-haired teen's uneasiness and quickly followed the other. The following hours Ulquiorra hadn't spoken to him once. Grimmjow might have thought it was funny in the beginning, but now he certainly didn't think that anymore. Ulquiorra was flat out ignoring him! Every time he said something to the other, there was no indication that the other had even heard him. Ulquiorra also didn't give him a water bottle when he asked for it. So he was thirsty and his feet were once again killing him. And of course Ulquiorra wasn't going to take a break, even though he asked for it a lot of times.

"Come on, Ulquiorra. Let's take a break and stop fucking ignoring me!" This didn't have any effect on the teen just like the other forty times he asked. "Don't act so childish over such a minor thing." Ulquiorra suddenly stopped walking. Grimmjow almost slammed into him since it was so unexpected. Good thing it didn't happen or he would probably be left alone in the woods.

"We will take a break here." The blue-haired teen noticed they were at a open spot with a river again. And he noticed Ulquiorra finally talked to him again! It might not have been more than necessary, but then again Ulquiorra never spoke more than necessary. After refilling their bottles, they both sat down.

"Are you mad at me?" Grimmjow once again voiced his thought without meaning to. Although he was kinda curious to the answer.

"No." Well that was nice, at least one cero-worry less.

"Then why were you ignoring me?"

"I wasn't ignoring you, I just didn't see the necessity to talk to you." Of course what a typical Ulquiorra answer. They stayed at the spot for 15 minutes before they got going again. Still with a lot of silence, but Ulquiorra said something back when he was spoken to. Grimmjow had decided to not talk about the morning anymore, to avoid being ignored again. After a while they took a break to eat lunch. The blue-haired teen decided to ask about his sleeping predicament for the night, again.

"So, Ulquiorra do you know where we're gonna sleep tonight?" Ulquiorra grabbed the map and thought for a bit.

"Well if we walk at a quicker pace, we can reach an old abandon cabin. We can stay the night there." Ulquiorra was being considerate again. He actually is a nice person when you don't piss him off. Why hasn't he ever been this nice in Las Noches? Grimmjow thought to himself a bit more before they started walking again.

"Oi, Ulquiorra you're really walking fast right now!" Grimmjow almost needed to run to catch up with Ulquiorra.

"I said that we needed to travel faster, if we wanted to reach the cabin."

"We will take a break for dinner, right?" Otherwise he needed to eat while walking, although dinner would probably be consisting out of another sandwich.

"It determines if we walk quick enough." Grimmjow sped up.

"What are you waiting for then?" Ulquiorra caught up and they walked this way for a few hours. It was more tiring than Grimmjow had thought. It had been 3 and an half hours of walking this fast pace and he was already out of breath. He gathered his breath before he said something, cause he didn't wanna look weak in front of Ulquiorra.

"Are we on schedule?" Ulquiorra was still holding the map so it didn't take him long to answer.

"Yes." Well that was a surprisingly short answer for Ulquiorra. He looked over at the teen. When you just took a quick look, it seemed like he didn't have any trouble keeping up, but when you looked closely, you could see he was moving with slight difficulty and breathing heavier. It might have been less bad than with himself, but Ulquiorra was also having trouble keeping up the pace. They walked for one more hour before Grimmjow really wanted to take a break again.

"Ulquiorra, can we take a break? I'm really exhausted." Ulquiorra stopped.

"Alright, let's take a break." They both sat, well Grimmjow lay, down. "It might be better if we eat dinner as well, I know it's still a bit early, but we can walk to the cabin in only one or two stops after."

"Alright, what do we have for dinner?" Ulquiorra looked at him and deadpanned.

"Sandwiches." After dinner they rested for a few more minutes, then they started moving again. After three hours of walking they took a short break to refill the water bottles and walked to the cabin in one take. It was a nice wooden cabin, the door however was locked, but this was no problem for them. Inside it was furnished with a chair, a table and a couch in the living room, one bed in the bedroom and a bathroom with a toilet and a shower.

"Thank god! I can finally pee in a normal toilet again!" Grimmjow immediately ran to the bathroom. Ulquiorra was checking the lighting, which flickered a few times, but stayed on nonetheless. You could hear Grimmjow flush the toilet before he came in the room again.

"I didn't expect the water to be working…" Ulquiorra muttered more to himself than to Grimmjow, who was busy inspecting the cabin.

"Who's gonna sleep in the bed?" Grimmjow yelled from the bedroom, after he saw there was only one bed.

"You can sleep in there, I'd rather sleep in my sleeping bag on the floor." Grimmjow just shrugged and didn't ask any further. Ulquiorra grabbed the map and lay it down on the table. He sat down on the chair.

"What are you doing?" Grimmjow asked when he came into the room and saw Ulquiorra studying the map.

"I am looking for the quickest way to the store." Grimmjow walked up to the table and stood behind Ulquiorra. He looked at the map.

"Where are we now?" Ulquiorra pointed at a tiny brown dot, the cabin. Grimmjow looked at where the city was. Fortunate for him the city wasn't so hard to recognize since it was a different color than green. If you drew a straight line from the cabin to the city you would go over a big patch of blue, a lake. No, a huge lake. "Well I think the shortest way is like this." He pointed at the map and drew a line from the cabin, around the left side of the lake, to the city. When his finger reached the city, he was leaning over the chair against Ulquiorra. He thought he felt Ulquiorra give a little shudder when they touched, but it could also have been his imagination.

"I thought so, too. I'm going to bed now." Grimmjow stepped aside and Ulquiorra walked to his bag, which was lying next to the couch.

"Well… I'll be going to bed then, as well." Grimmjow sounded a bit suspicious about Ulquiorra's behavior. He walked to the bedroom and lay down in bed. Why did Ulquiorra act so weird when they got to cabin. No, wait, he needed to be more precise. Ulquiorra didn't act out until they were studying the map. To be even more accurate till he touched him. When that happened he felt Ulquiorra shudder and after that Ulquiorra tried to get away from him as quickly as possible. Hmm, weird what could be wrong with Ulquiorra? He thought about it for quite a while and came up with countless theories, which all didn't seem likely, before he finally fell asleep.