WARNINGS:
Yaoi (GrimmIchi)
Language
OOCness (due to the fact that I am a crappy writer and that this story has to progress
'Thoughts'
"Talking"
Flashback
"Talking in a flashback"
Grimmjow woke up feeling the best he had ever since he arrived in the Human World. He was warm and full and he didn't hurt as much anymore. Purring contentedly, the Espada rolled onto its other side to go back to sleep when, once again, Grimmjow realized that he had woken up in a place he didn't recognize with only a faint recollection of why he was there. As he looked around the room, he slowly began to remember again. The battle, the Shinigami, Tousen, Aizen, his arm, Syazel, cats, and oranges.
'Oranges,' he mused to himself. He looked at the two human girls sleeping against the bed he was in. Both had reiatsu, but not enough for him to even consider them anything. The black haired girl had a bit more than the light-brown haired girl. Grimmjow saw from his peripheral vision exactly the color he had been thinking of before. He didn't even need to turn to know who it was. The annoyingly massive reiatsu and the obnoxiously colored hair told him who it was. Grimmjow smirked at the irony of the whole situation. He was here because he picked a fight with the Shinigami and now, the same Shinigami who he injured and who injured him back had saved him and healed up the injury he had given the Arrancar. 'If I wasn't a fucking cat, I might've laughed at this.'
The Espada turned kitten walked to the side of the bed where the orange-head was leaning on. 'Dumb shit. Leaving his guard down. If that asshole hadn't taken away my reiatsu, I would kill this loser right now.' Grimmjow glared at the sleeping boy. 'He thinks he's safe enough to fall asleep in my presence? OI. YOU UNDERESTIMATING ME HERE, SHINIGAMI?'
Ichigo stirred in his sleep. 'What the heck is that noise?' He reluctantly opened his eyes and saw an angry cat meowing loudly at him. He smiled. "Hey there, little guy. Are you feeling better already- OW! WHAT THE-" he stopped himself before finishing his sentence, not wanting to curse in front of his sisters or wake them up. The strawberry blonde looked at the bleeding scratches on his hand and with the other hand, touched his now bleeding face.
He glared at the kitten. He could swear, the kitten was smirking at him! He saved the damn creature and it comes back to claw him on the face? He took a deep breath and tried to calm himself. 'Okay, you know what? It's tired, injured, and probably scared. Maybe its just a reflex. Or it wants to play. Or something.'
Ichigo forced his face into a smile. "Let's try this again. Hey there, little- WHAT THE FU-" He now had matching scratches on both cheeks. He grabbed the kitten by the scruff and suspended it over the bed. However, before he could attack the thing, Yuzu and Karin woke up.
Yuzu gasped, looking dismayed at her beloved older brother. "Ichi-nii! What are you doing to the poor kitty?" She pulled the 'poor kitty' away from the clutches of Ichigo and petted it's head softly. "I can't believe you!" The brunette turned and left the room with an angry huff.
Karin looked at the disbelief and scratches all over her brother's face and laughed. "Looks like you picked up a feisty one," she smirked as she too turned and followed her younger twin out of the room.
Grumbling, the Shinigami followed his sister into the kitchen where he saw Yuzu feeding the demon cat. "Like that thing even needs food. It's got plenty of energy! Just you wait, Yuzu, the minute it's done eating, it'll turn around and scratch you too."
"Stop being such a baby," said Karin with her eyes rolling as she cleaned the scratches on her brother's face and put band-aids on them.
"Yeah, Ichi-nii. I don't believe you anyway. It was probably scared of you. You do usually have a scary expression on all the time after all. It's too cute to hurt anyone, aren't you? Aren't you?" said the younger twin as she cooed over the kitten.
The Espada's eye twitched at being called 'too cute to hurt anyone' and would've proved the stupid human girl wrong but the look on the Shinigami's face was enough to make him reconsider. 'Hehehe, how do ya like me now, Shinigami?'
Not wanting to seem pettty to his sisters, Ichigo dropped the topic and settled for glaring at the feline every once in a while. As the Espada ate and drank the food Yuzu prepared for him, Karin said, "We should give him a name." Yuzu squealed in delight. "I think we should call him Fluffy! Or Cutie-pie!"
Ichigo and Grimmjow both choked at that. Grimmjow hissed. 'WHAT! FLUFFY? CUTIE-PIE! FUCK NO! BITCH, YOU BETTER NOT!' while Ichigo said, "We're KEEPING him!" As his brown eyes met his sisters' eyes, he realized he had no choice now but to keep the demon cat. The orange-head sighed. Had he known that the cat was going to be evil and that he was going to have to keep him, he would've walked the 5 miles in the rain to the vet and left the kitten there.
"Fine. We'll keep him. But we still need to give him a name. AND WE'RE NOT CALLING HIM FLUFFY." The Shinigami shuddered. He couldn't bear to inflict such a name even on the demon cat.
"Then what should we call him?"
Ichigo pondered this for a while. "Well... it acts more predatory than a normal cat, and it looks kinda like a panther with its fur..." Chocolate brown eyes met sapphire blue ones. "We'll call him 'Hyo'."
AUTHOR'S NOTE:
There, I explained the vet issue. And in case it's not that obvious, "Hyo" means "panther" in Japanese (according to Google Translate). To be honest, I am not a cat person. In fact, I hate cats. The domesticated kinds, not the wild, mountain kinds. Anyway, I imagine cats to act like this. Demons... Anyway, so it's all humour right now and not much angst or romance but don't worry, it's coming. I just want to have them bond first before the angst and romance kicks in.
