"Well look at you actually wearing a top." I whistled over the pulsing bass of the lugar de relajación as I took a seat at the bar.
"Hum?" Shearia hummed as she turned from the drink she was mixing, opening to my eyes the view of the bandaged upper half of her torso, under the black vest she was wearing.
"And never mind." I shook my head, can't believe I thought she was wearing a legitimate shirt.
She chuckled. "What brings you here so early Grimm-jow-sa-ma?" She clicked her tongue as she emphasized each syllable of my name with honorific. Smirking at me as she bent down to rest her forearms of the bar top causing her handful sized breasts to squish together pushing forward the bandages keeping them hidden. "It's not even nine yet." She raised her eyebrows, quirking her grin in a teasing manner.
"You know I hate it when you call me that." I glared leaning forward and giving her head a knock with my own. She didn't move.
"Yep, and that's why I call you that." She stuck her tongue out and giggled. "The usual?"
I sighed. "Yeah."
"Now really what brings you here so early in the night Grimmjow?" She asked more sternly as she scooped ice into a glass and filled it almost to the brim with whiskey.
"My mainframe has been hacked." She nodded and handed me my drink which I quickly took a long swig of. "So I was hoping you'd have someone who was good with computer pest control."
She glance up at the ceiling, her eyes shifting constantly as she checked her mental list of employees with special talents, which was well all of them.
"Lucky you I have just the guy for the job! Aaaand he happens to be here this evening. He's up on the third floor setting up the new furniture." She pointed towards the stairs. "I'll warn you though he's not cheap." I raised a brow at her. "I know you don't care, just thought I'd let you know anyway." She raised her hands in defence as she slipped through the bar door, one of the servers taking her place behind the bar. There were only four tables in use and the bar was packed so leaveing the other server to take care of them was fine "So shall I introduce you?" She offered gesturing with her hand for me to follow after her.
At the top of the stairs Shearia swipped her card key and pushed the door to the V.I.P room open allowing me to enter first. The room looked completely different. All the old oak furniture had been replaced with new stainless steel and glass furnishings. The black walls had been painted white with an intricate organic pattern overtop.
"Wow Ichigo you finished it all, already! I'm impressed. Now where the heck are you!?" Shearia called, sounding confused. There didn't seem to be anyone else in the room.
"Just finishing stocking up the bar Shearia-san." A mild baritone replied as a head of spiking orange hair emerged from behind the glass bar top in the far right corner. "Oh, who's this?" The man asked gesturing with an open palm to me and tilting his head.
"Oh yes, right. This is Grimmjow Jaggerjack the founder and C.E.O of Espada Inc. He is in need of your special talent." She replied quickly holding her hands towards me like I was a prize on the Wheel of Fortune show.
Stepping out from behind the bar the orange haired man held out his hand to me and introduced himself. "I am Ichigo Kurosaki, and which of my many talents is it that you are in need of?"
I would have thought him a smug bastard, but the look in his eyes reminded me of Shearia and Yuroichi who both spoke as if they were over confident but had the abilities to back up there claims. So I smirked and took his hand, gripping harder than I normally would. He didn't even flinch just squeezed my hand harder in return and it hurt. Just a little but still.
"Well I seem to have a Hacker problem. Think you can take care of it for me?" We released the hand shake and he nodded.
"Not a problem. Do you have a laptop that's connected to your mainframe or shall I use mine to hack in myself to take care of your little pest problem?" Oh this kid better be able to back up these words of his or I'm going to punch him.
"Here." I slipped my laptop from its place in my bag and handed it to him. "Password's six,six,six."
He quirked a brow. "Devils number? Interesting choice must be because of your devilish appearance." He chuckled as he returned to the bar top and set to work on the device.
"You better mean that in a good way kid or"
"Or course I do. I would never insult a client." He stated calmly, the cocky brat act seemingly gone as his finger typed away on my laptop, his eyes never leaving the screen.
"Oh and Grimmjow I have some interesting information I need to give you. Care to come back downstairs for a bit while you wait for Ichigo to finish?" Shearia, who had been silently observing until now requested and again gestured to the door leading to the stairs.
"Yeah sure. How long do you think you'll be Kurosaki?" I called over my shoulder my shoulder as I once again followed Shearia to the stairs.
"Ten minutes tops. I'll come down when I'm finished." I nodded though he still hadn't looked up even when replying to me and gave him one last look over before heading back down to the first floor.
Back on the first floor Shearia lead me to a far off table and we took a seat. For the first little while she just stared at me, seemingly in thought before she final spook. "I have reason to believe that you have become a target of the Hollows Grimmjow. I don't know whether they want your head or if they want you. Either way it's not good."
"I know and I already have Yuroichi and Soi Fon looking into it." I sighed. I had known since last week that I was in the sights or the raising gang the Hollows and had taken the necessary precautions. So why was she worrying about it.
"They have people just as skilled as Yuroichi on their side Grimm, those two might not be enough." She pushed placing her hands on mine as she looked into my eyes. I could see the worry and it angered me.
"I can take care of myself Shearia I don't need you-"
"I am your friend Grimmjow and I will not let you take this lightly. You know I wouldn't be saying this if I thought at all that you could handle this yourself. But sometimes even you and even I need someone else to look out for them." She cut me off her voice low and dangerous. "Now just listen to what I have to say."
"Continue."
"I have heard that the hollows have been taking in all he top members of the top gangs in Karakura. So far that includes, the Shirogane Brothers, Severn of the black panther, the bat and the shark." All of those people were top fighters that could go head to head with and had gone head to head with myself, Shearia, Yuroichi and Soi Fon. How in the world had the hollows gotten them to follow them.
"You've got to be kidding me. How did they manage that?"
"Kurotsuchi said they probably forced them into it with some kind of drug or device, with the device being far more plausible." Ichigo's voice sounded beside me as he placed my closed laptop in front of me and took a seat. "And that'll be three hundred and nine thousand and five hundred and seventy yen please." He added.
"A device huh?" I took out my check book and filled it out according to Ichigo's price before handing it to him.
"I'm having Kurotsuchi look into what kind of device could do such a thing but he says it will take a while. So in the meantime I think you should stay here." I jumped from my seat.
"Fuck that!" I yelled, gaining the attention of everyone on the floor.
"Grim-"
"You listen here tough guy-" Ichigo was right in my face his hand fisted in my shirt pulling me down to his height. "I don't care how strong you think you are! The Hollows are dangerous and they obviously aren't having trouble gathering up the strongest criminals in japan and making them do their bidding! So you better calm the fuck down and listen to what Shearia is telling you to do cuz however fucking strong you think your people are she has stronger ones! Ones that can fuck the Hollows over so bad they'll wish they had died and burned in hell instead of fucking with her friends. You'll be staying here until we Nishikata Byakko take these fuckers down! You understand!" Ichigo screamed in my face, his eyes burning with rage.
"Why the fuck are you getting so damned worked up. I just met you. I don't mean jack shit to you Kid!" I screamed back twisting his arm, forcing him to let go of me.
"Because Shearia is my friend and I know she would be a fucking mess if something were to happen to you!" He yelled back despite the pain that had to be shooting up his arm right now.
"Tch." I released his arm, grabbed my laptop and stormed out of the place. I could take care of myself god damn it. I wasn't going to let myself me babied like this.
Normal point of view
"He's so damn stubborn." Ichigo hissed. "Doesn't he understand that he can't fight these guys alone!?"
"Aren't you the same way Ichigo?" Shearia said calmly looking down at Ichigo who sat of the floor. He said nothing just glanced at the floor.
"He'll come around. I knew he'd be like this. He just needs to come to the same conclusion on his own." She assured, offering a small smile to the orange haired male as she got up and headed back towards the bar. "I just hope by then it's not too late…" She whispered.
"Yeah." Ichigo starred at the ground.