Complicated
Chapter 2: Avoid
AN: Thanks to Hana-chan, WammyBoysFTW, ice devil cat demon, Senbonzakura11, and Kumani Arentoi for reviewing! I'm not very good at romance, but I'll try!
~G~
Grimmjow, for the next five hours, occupied himself with anything he could find. He would do anything that would keep him away from the Sexta Quarters; anything that would keep him from running into Mai. When he saw her in the hall, he would turn around and go the opposite direction. If that was impossible, he would hide. It caused some strange looks from others, but he didn't really care what others thought. He had even strolled around for two hours after work just so he didn't have to go back to his room. Grimmjow did all he could, but eventually, he had to go and face her.
As Grimmjow trudged back to his room, he thought of other ways to avoid it, but he was feeling tired and wanted nothing more then to go to his room and relax.
'I can't relax if she's in there.' He thought to himself as he arrived at the Sexta Quarters. 'But I can just not say anything. If I don't say anything, she won't say anything. That'll be just fine.'
Grimmjow pushed open the double doors and, to his relief, saw no one in the hall. Everything and everyone was quiet in his place. His fraccion were probably all in their rooms. Mai's fraccion should be in theirs by now, and hopefully Mai was already asleep. If she was asleep, he could just prepare for bed without any awkwardness.
It was a simple, uncomplicated plan. Walk in; get ready for bed, sleep. Nothing complicated. Routine. Grimmjow smiled a small smile. 'Che, I'm doing the stupidest things to avoid Mai. If she's in there, she's in there. If she's not, she's not.'
"Grimmjow?" Grimmjow couldn't help, but jump a bit at the voice from the end of the hall. When he looked, he saw Mai's fraccion. Hana Harribel; the blonde and red eyed hyper active kid who drove everyone crazy during the day. He was surprised she didn't jump him or something.
"What do you want?" he asked as he was about to enter his room. He didn't hear anything from inside, so that must mean she's either asleep, or not in there. To his relief, he opened the door to find no one there.
"I was wondering; why is Mai-chan not sleeping in your room tonight?" asked Hana as she walked up to him.
Grimmjow felt a small wave of relief come over him. Mai was going to sleep in her fraccion's room. She knew that it would be awkward if she didn't. 'What am I worrying about? She said no and there's nothing to be worried about. Why the hell am I so…emotional today?' It wasn't like him to be like this. He was usually fine with rejection. He would just find someone else and forget all about the reject. Usually, he'd be with someone else by now. So why the hell was he still thinking about it?
"Tsk, my mind's fucked up right now…" Grimmjow was about to go into his room and get ready for be when Hana poked him.
"Grimmy," Hana liked to use that nickname to annoy him, but he's gotten so use to it that it no longer irritated the hell out of him. "Why is Mai-chan not sleeping in your room tonight? She wouldn't tell us." Hana yawned as she followed Grimmjow into his room.
"Why are you following me?" It was great that Mai wasn't gong to be sleeping in his room tonight, but he didn't need a substitute. Especially not Hana; she'd probably try and scare him half to death at midnight or something.
"Mai-chan asked me to get her something." Hana skipped over to Mai's dresser and pulled open a drawer. She started rummaging through it before closing it and opening another one. Without finding what she was looking for in that drawer, she closed it and opened yet another. "Oh where, oh where could it be?"
Grimmjow ignored the blonde's comments to herself as she searched. He was tired and just wanted to lay down; without Hana talking to herself. He COULD just cero her out of the room, but he wasn't that annoyed yet. He yawned as he pulled off his shirt and lay down. Grimmjow didn't want to bother with other stuff. Why relax later when you can relax now?
"Hana, what did Mai ask you to get her?" Grimmjow knew where she kept most of her things, so if he helped Hana, she would get out and he could sleep. Hana got up and smiled slyly at him. "Stop staring at me like that and tell me already. The sooner you find it, the sooner you can get out." He scowled until she spoke up.
"Can you help me find Mai-chan's underwear?" she giggled at the look on Grimmjow's face.
"Wh-what…?" 'She can't be serious. Mai won't even sleep in the same room as me and now I have to go through her underwear drawer?'
"I'm just kidding, baka!" The blonde giggled as she skipped over to the nightstand. She picked up a book and headed to the door. "I bet you're disappointed! Don't be such a pervy-perv, Grimmy!" Hana laughed as she shut the door.
Grimmjow scowled again as he flopped onto his bed. "Stupid brat."
~MAI'S POV ~
Hana threw me my book as she skipped into the room, giggling. "Mai-chan, I have a question!" Hana jumped onto my bed as my other fraccion, Jerico Kiatcero, handed me a glass of water. He usually got a glass for everyone before we go to bed, in case we were thirsty in the middle of the night. "Kiatcero-kun! Sit here!" Hana pulled him down once he was done handing everyone a glass. Leola, my last fraccion, smiled as she walked over and sat down at the foot of the bed.
Due to space problems, all three of my fraccion have to share one room. No one needs to worry about the whole 'mixing genders in one room' problem, because Jerico is a complete gentleman. He's actually quite shy. If it's one of the three that you have to be worried about, it would be Leola. She's inappropriate in more ways than one. From the way she dresses to her comments. She can turn any situation, as simple as washing the dishes, into something sexual.
"What's your question, Hana?" I asked as I sipped at my water.
"Are you avoiding Grimmy because he wants to go through your underwear drawer?" she asked with an innocent face. I nearly spit out my water all over them. Leola smirked and Jerico blushed (He has an innocent mind. Whenever Leola starts going through one of her 'scene scenarios', he starts blushing at all the mental images she's giving him.).
"Wh-what?" I wiped the water that I managed to drool away. "Where would you get that idea?"
The blonde smiled as she pointed at my book. "When I went to get your book, I told him I was looking for your underwear. He looked like he wanted to help me look for it. But then I told him I was joking. HE CALLED ME A STUPID BRAT!" Hana then proceeded to go on about how Grimmjow was stupid and how he's mean to kids and how she wonders if I have a secret to survive sharing a room with him. "I mean seriously, do you have a super secret tunnel behind the couch or something?"
Leola twirled a lock of her orange hair around her finger. "You know, Mai-san, it IS Valentine's Day…are you avoiding him because you're afraid that he'll…" She held back a laugh as she glanced at Jerico and Hana, who were looking at her with innocent faces. "…do something?"
That set them off. (Why do my fraccion have to be so loud?) Hana started yelling, "EWWW! Leola-chan, that's disgusting!" while waving her arms around randomly, which she tends to do from time to time. Hana may love reading yaoi manga, but she has such an innocent mind.
Jerico, on the other hand, started blushing. "Leola-san, you shouldn't talk about Mai-sama that way!" It didn't help when Leola started making…sounds… "Leola, stop that!"
"But Kiatcero-kun~!" she said with a seductive voice. Leola only grinned when Jerico started blushing. She just died when he started to push her back (because she was trying to crawl on him).
I kicked Leola off my bed and shoved a screaming and laughing Hana to the floor. "Go to bed." They continued to giggle as they walked over to their beds and got under the blankets. Their beds were right next to each other while Jerico's was a yard away from them. I turned off the lights as they all got settled in. It was quiet in the darkness for a minute…Before Leola continued.
"Ohh~ Grimmjow~!" Leola imitated my voice in the darkness. She giggled before wiggling around under the blanket. "D-don't stop!" I heard Hana smack Leola's head, but that only caused her to laugh even harder. They screamed at each other as I laid there, silently staring at the ceiling and willing them to shut up.
"Ewww!" Hana laughed as she rolled around in her bed. "Leola-chan, you're so perverted!" They kept laughing, ignoring Jerico as he buried his face into his pillow and pulled his blanket over his head.
"Stoffs thet," he said in a muffled voice.
"D-don't stop!" Leola said (while still imitating my voice) as she continued to laugh. "Gr…Gr…Gr-Grimmjow!" she screamed (again, still in my voice) as she flopped over under her blanket. Leola started laughing her ass off. Hana joined in while Jerico continued to mumble about the mental images.
A blush creeped it's way across my face as Hana complemented on how Leola could sound just like me. I was thankful for the darkness because I was sure the blush was definitely noticeable.
"Mai-san, if you're so worried, use protection," suggested Leola as she sat up a bit.
I turned my back to them because the blush on my face was probably redder then a tomato. "Sh-shut up," I mumbled into my blanket. 'Now I have another thing to be worried about.' Grimmjow's probably plotting a way to get me back at this very moment. It'll probably be horrible and would be torture. He's stronger than me and he knows it. I hope I can fend him off or something when he starts coming for me.
All this thought about Grimmjow coming after me kind of scares me a bit. I couldn't help, but shiver slightly as I turn back around, now that the blush faded away.
"Mai-san, it's not too late. Grimmjow's probably still awake. You can go in there if you want. We don't mind." Leola's suddenly beside me with a quick sonido. "Actually, I'm sure you'll have 'fun'. Just don't be too loud, we all need rest!" she purred in my ear before sonido'ing back. My face heated up again as Leola continued to make her comments and sounds.
This is going to be a long night.
~GRIMMJOW'S POV~
The (artificial) sun had been up for a while when I woke up this morning. It was, obviously, the day after Valentine's Day. It's the day where plenty of girls are depressed and crying over one-night stands and stuff. I remember that if Mai had said yes, I would've gotten up earlier and try to make breakfast for us. I actually tried to find something easy and decent to make, but all that effort was wasted.
…Last night…I think I heard Mai screaming…it wasn't a scream of terror, but more like one of…pleasure…
Great, now she's sleeping with another guy. It was bad enough that she said no, but now she's shoving the fact that there's some guy better then me in my face! I scowled as I threw the blankets off and got ready for the day.
~G~
It's about noon now. Right after lunch, Aizen made us all suffocate on his reiatsu, which was his way of calling us to a meeting. When I arrived at the table, I saw one thing that was very wrong. Lilinette Gingerback was here. Every once in a while, Aizen calls a meeting, including the Decimal Espada and the occasional strong enough to be Espada fraccion.
After I sat down, I glanced around the room. Almost everyone was here; Wonderwiece was here for once. Lilinette, Wonderwiece, and Kiactero (one of the strong-enough-to-be-an-Espada fraccion) were all there. The only people missing were Mai and the new Decima, Roflmao Unter.
"Where's Mai?" asked Szayel Aporro from Zommari's right. He flashed me a smile. "Isn't your little fraccion with you?" He had problems with Mai being a Decimal Espada. To him, she seemed weak, I guess.
After about a minute of waiting, the last two arrived. Rofly was grinning as he walked in, pulling Mai along by the wrist. She looked annoyed by the blonde, as always, as he shoved her behind my chair. He jogged over to his seat between Barragan and Aaroniero just as Aizen entered the room.
When I glanced back at Mai, I noticed one thing. She still had the blue rose tucked into her sleeve. Right there, in plain sight, the blue rose. The one that I gave her, but why would she keep it? Probably to mock me, telling me that I couldn't get her, but I could get almost every other girl in Las Noches.
"Grimmjow…?" Mai whispered as she leaned forward slightly. Decimal Espada always stand behind the main Espada's chair. Lilinette stands behind Starrk, and Mai stands behind me. Wonderwiece stands behind Aaroniero, because no one else was willing to have him standing behind them, and Kiatcero stands behind Rofly.
I glanced back at her again. Aizen was giving us some information on some mission that he was that planning, which was easy to tune out. My attention was turned to Mai. "Are you okay…?" she asked quietly. I was surprised that she asked that. Before I could respond, Aizen was speaking to me.
"Grimmjow Jaegerjaques, are you speaking during my meeting?" he asked as his reiatsu made my breathing a bit harder to manage. I shook my head.
"No, Aizen-sama." It took a lot of my self control to not scowl and flip that bastard off.
Aizen smiled, "Good. If you want to talk during my meeting…you and Mai can have a talk with me afterwards." He continued smiling, which scared me shitless. After a moment of silence, he continued on about the search for more Vasto Lorde. Aizen talked about how it was dangerous and that only the strongest Espada should be sent. It was obvious that whoever he sent that was weaker than my rank;he was trying to kill or test them somehow.
A few hours later, Aizen was finishing up about the details and who he was sending on this mission. "Now, you are dismissed, my dear Espada."
We all got up from our chairs and headed toward the stairs that led up to the double doors. Mai was behind me, probably following me back to my room. We were right about to leave when Aizen spoke up.
"Mai Cifer, you stay back here." Aizen's reiatsu was signaling that I couldn't stay behind with her. It felt kind of awkward to be around Mai, but I wanted to find out what she wanted to tell me. "You too, Ulquiorra."
Whatever the reason that Aizen called them to stay behind, I had a feeling it wasn't good. It was strange that I was trying to avoid Mai, but now I'm worrying about her for some reason…
~M~
It was near midnight when Aizen-sama finally let Ulquiorra-sama and I from our private meeting. We were really tired, from the stress that the meeting brought. Ulquiorra-sama stifled a yawn as he half groggily walked back to his quarters. I didn't even bother to hide my yawn as I sonido'ed back. I was too tired to walk back. Before I actually go to sleep though, I have to tell Grimmjow.
Inside Grimmjow's room, everything was dark, except for the dim light streaming in from the hallway. He was sleeping on his back, sprawled out in the middle of his bed, snoring softly. I felt my face heat up slightly. Not because I was in his room while he was sleeping, of course not, I'm supposed to share a room with him. Usually I'm the one that's sleeping when he comes in.
No, the thing that made me blush was he was wearing nothing, but his boxers. I know that everyone knows that he has a muscular chest, but with his shirt completely off… I felt embarrassed, but I couldn't help but feel…turned on… (I blame Leola.)
'Mai Cifer, what are you thinking? Hotness isn't the only thing in a person!' I think to myself as I will the blush off my face. I crept up to Grimmjow and shook his shoulder lightly. He didn't respond, so I crawled onto the bed quietly and kneeled beside him.
"Grimmjow…?" He looked peaceful in his sleep… No scowl, no psychotic grins that scare the hell out of everyone… "Grimmjow." 'Snap out of it. I need to tell him.'
I was about to try and wake him again when he rolled over. His arm pushed me down before wrapping itself around my stomach and pulling me close to him. "Grimmjow!" He had an iron grip even in his freakin' sleep! "Grimmjow, let me go, and I won't cero you." He didn't wake up; he only pulled me closer to him. Sighing, I wrestled myself out of his grasp before he could get any hornier in his sleep.
"Grimmjow, wake up." Slowly, his eyes fluttered open and he looked up at me.
"Mai, what are you doing?" he sat up as he rubbed his eye. I forced a smile at him.
"Grimmjow…" I took my zanpaktou from it's place leaned on the wall and hooked it to my sash. "That mission that Aizen-sama was describing…I have to go."
He sat up and placed a hand on my shoulder. "What? No, you'd get killed out there," he got up and started fumbling around for his jacket and hakama. "I'm going to talk to Aizen. He's sending you to get killed and die in your own blood in the middle of the desert." Grimmjow was in the middle of pulling on his hakama when I stopped him.
"I'll be fine. Ulquiorra-sama's coming along with me." I forced another smile. "Grimmjow-" He restarted to pull on his uniform. I stopped him once again by pushing him back, which took some effort on my part because he was bigger than me.
"Mai-" I stopped him again, placing my hand over his mouth.
"…I just came to say good bye."
