Her Brothers
Intro:
Heya. So, I'm putting this up pretty quickly from Pro.1, which was Orihime's back story. This is Grimmjow's version, and compared to Hime's it's obviously pretty short. Still not going to see the first flourishes of the GXI- but the first actually chapter will contain it- promise.
I forgot to include that this will have some flavors of ShiroXNnoi involved. FYI, in this story his name is actually just Shiro- not going to lengthen it to Shirosaki. I have never liked him being a Kurosaki, while his name is Shirosaki- because then his name just contradicts itself. (Shiro = White; Kuro = Black, and~ author instantly gets 'Silly Name' headache, because of her pride in creating creative names is hurt, XP)
Summary: Orihime has always attempted to 'fix' those around her ever since she was little. But Grimmjow thinks there no way she will ever be able to pick up his pieces, at least not without a little help from her 'brother'. This is a GrimmXIchi, which means boy love- which means if you don't like it don't read it. XP
I'll probably put more Note at the bottom… hmm…
And… now then.
Her Brothers.
Grimmjow:
I met Ichigo Kurosaki, some time after the rest of his family- the two oldest members of their family had moved out before the other entered my life.
I met Orihime Inoue, his adopted sister, a few weeks after they moved- she had come into my work a lot. But every time was with two younger girls that really didn't look like her. At the time I thought they were just her friends- regardless that they looked a few years younger. Orihime herself was a year or so younger than me, I found out when she bought a video game and had to look at her license for the rating. The younger girl with the darker hair smirked at me and as they left thanked me. I nodded as they left.
On the following Friday, I met her again- this time as a friend's house.
Starrk and I went to High School together, and while he was a grade above me, his boyfriend was two under me. They had started dating when Starrk was in the beginning of his senior year, and Shinji- also known as Blondie to me- was a freshmen; and somehow they were still together now, when Blondie is a senior. Blondie practically lives with him- as opposed to with his own whack ass family. Lillynette, Starrk's little sister, likes him too, which is a wonder. Chick doesn't like much of anyone.
But when I joined Nnoitra and Szayel in going to Starrk's that night for the small get together, I hadn't thought things would turn out like that.
By the end of the night, when I expressed interest in going back to Nnoitra's and going to bed, Blondie suddenly decided that it would be prime time to tell me that Nnoitra and Szayel left a while ago. We got in a fight that for some reason was broken up by Lillynette and this other girl that I then didn't know. Starrk was laughing his ass of on the couch, telling us both if we were gonna fight, fine, just don't bleed on my carpet. Shinji sighed and relaxed before turning to his boyfriend and glaring death, decided to start a fight with him now. Seeing that my role was over, Lillynette turned and smiled oddly at me.
"Grimmjow Jeagerjaques," she says and then looks at the other girl who had been holding Shinji back, "Orihime Inoue." Then she turned to me and smiled wider. "Walked her home, eh, Blue?" Orihime and I both looked at her weird.
But in the end I did walk her home, and I did get to know more about the girl with no blood family. That night I came to the conclusion that Orihime Inoue was either very resilient, or could just had some mass insanity really well. I put money on anyone who had gone though what she had being completely off her rocker.
I ended up sleeping on her couch- not wanting to risk going back to Nnoitra's and having to listen to him and Szayel do whatever they were doing. I was counting down the days until Szayel would leave for the UK for the next two and a half years of college abroad. Orihime didn't ask why I couldn't just go back to my home. I was glad, because I thought that she would have looked at me differently if I had explained.
I did my usual and called Nel before I went to sleep on the couch, only to wake up a few hours later to a poke in the head. I looked up at the two young girls in front of me, who I recognized from the game store where I worked, when I had met Orihime. The dark haired one smirked while the other, lighter haired one just smiles softly.
"Pancakes or french toast," the second one asked her smiles lighting just a tad more. And I was instantly in love with this family.
Hime and I got closer- I found out that she was a little bat-shit, but over all, just really resilient. She cared about other people more than herself most of the time. Nel, my little sister, met her by accident- they were instantly ganging up on me to get me to do anything and everything they wanted me to do. Evil females.
Hime helped us through a lot. Isshin allowed Nel to stay with them more than once when things at home got bad- I would usually crash at Starrk's or Nnoitra's. She'd talk me out of my blind rage when my head got me thinking about just axing all our problems- namely, my father.
And on one of those nights, I learned about what she kept under close quarters in her head. About her brother- her real brother- and what happened to her family. She told me what she could while keeping her head on straight. She told me that she would never let me put Nel through what she had been through herself- because Nel doesn't have the spring-board of people she had; she only had me.
I wanted to prove her wrong- for so many reasons. But, I couldn't. I knew that Nel didn't have a good support of friends. Her teacher's told me a few times that Nel doesn't talk much in her class, that she doesn't have many friends.
In under four months Hime and the Kurosaki family had wormed their way into my life- Nel's life. And I wasn't blind to see that Hime was doing the same with Nnoitra. His home life was even more fucked up than mine some time. And when Szayel left for UK in August he spent a lot more time there. And things with his mother went down the shit shaft real fast. Now that was a crazy woman- Nnoi's ma.
But up until that Tuesday, just over a week before Christmas, we- Nnoi, Nel and I- ever heard much about the older Kurosaki twins. The male twins. Isshin and Orihime had invited the three of us to come spend Christmas with them. Nel and I had recently gotten out of our dad's house, not easily or cleanly in the least. Isshin had to call the police for assault on me and have him carted away before we had gotten out. But, I'm twenty-two so I would have to at least make a statement against him. Great way to start off the holiday.
Nnoitra had been avoiding home for a while- staying at Starrk's, even though he and Blondie- and Lilly- fought like hounds. Starrk didn't care- like any other time. But Nnoitra, ever the empathic, knew that our friend was getting the shaft from his boyfriend for taking his side. And while Blondie's request for him to leave would never be answered, if Starrk asked he would. And after a few weeks of fight with Shinji, Starrk finally did. Nnoitra took no offense, outwardly at least. He's really just not that good with people.
But the Kurosaki family had offered to board us for the holiday season- and probably a while after that I would humbly turn down when the time came. Sometimes they're just too nice that I feel like I'm taking advantage of them.
But when I arrived that Tuesday afternoon, after just getting off my double shift that had started around eleven the night before, I was happily surprised to not be ambushed by the crazy Kurosaki father at the door. And oddly wary of the overzealous smile that split Karin's face when she came to greet me at the door, from where I could hear noise in the kitchen. She offered only one sentence of explanation- which left so many other questions open ended.
"Ichi-nii and Shiro-nii are coming home."
Yum~, slightly cliffy, me thinks.
Point of interest: I haven't figured out what perspective I actually want to write the base story in. I stuck so bad at third person- it always turned first or so limited it's pointless to just keep it limited, might as well make it first. Any input?
But if you read the Note at the top, I realized I didn't include what I do like to make Shirosaki's last name, 'cause it's definitely not Hichigo ('Silly Name' headache begins again, XP) Because I usually make Shiro Ulqui's brother- they're both pale, it works. But obviously for this story, (or maybe not, since you don't know the plot yet..) Shiro being Ulqui's brother for this one, was just not going to work…
Grimmjow and Nel's relationship in this, I believe, is going to make my internal cute meter break. I definitely see Nel as that 'Conniving Little Sister' type- but she'd be so cute while doing it that you could just never mad with her for it… (Images make my internal muse squeal) So cute…
[-Man reference: I just had a Cyril to Rhode moment. If you don't speak -man, disregard.]
But yeah, thanks for reading. :D
-VV