A/N: I'm super sorry it took too long to get this chapter out! My band schedule has been kicking my butt, and I just recently had a sudden death that occurred in my life. So basically where I'm at right now, I'm still getting over that. It halted my writing completely so I feel bad about not getting this out sooner. If it makes you feel better though I've already got notes and some stuff written for the next three chapters so with luck, they'll be out sooner. It's also funny when I see something happen at my school so I put it in fanfictions, makes me giggle. And I have no idea why I'm using a lot of song references in this fic, like Katty Perry and Cee Low Green…. It's weird, but I hope they won't keep you guys from reading xP. Anyway, sorry for rambling, on with the chapter~


"Mr. Jeagerjaques."

Grimmjow heard a voice through the haziness of his mind and he turned his head slightly, mumbling something incoherent.

"Mr. Jeagerjaques."

The voice was sterner and Grimmjow tried prying one of his eyes open but it wouldn't respond.

"Grimmjow!"

His head shot up from the desk and he blinked a few times before looking around the room. His gaze went to the front of the room where their teacher was standing there with a look of discomfort and anger.

"So nice of you to join us Grimmjow, now, would please tell me what we just read about?"

Grimmjow stared down at the open history book in front of him and pursed his lips letting out a small 'hmm', "I bet it wasn't on this page." He stated bluntly and the class busted out in giggles. Ichigo in particular had his hand over his mouth to keep from laughing.

"Well, you got that part right." The teacher sighed heavily. He went to his desk and pulled out a pink slip of paper and he scribbled on it before motioning to Grimmjow to walk up front.

"Whatever." Grimmjow groaned as he threw his bag over his shoulder and walked up to the front to get his referral.

Ichigo put on his best serious face and he raised his hand slightly. "Sir, may I go to the restroom?" He asked biting his lip to keep from laughing.

"Yes, just be back soon." The man sounded annoyed and he turned back to the board. Ichigo stood from his seat and left the room, still holding back from laughing. When he entered the hall he saw Grimmjow and jogged up to him.

"You just love messing with him don't you?" He asked as he walked in step next to the blue haired devil.

"He's just really boring! Not to mention that he was the one who decided in college that he was going to teach a high school history class. He has to expect students like me. Rude, annoying, a class disruption, etc. I think he just needs to get laid." Ichigo busted out laughing and he quickly stifled it with his hand.

"I can't help but agree with you. He does seem a little stuck up all the time."

"More like needs to stick something up something else." Grimmjow stated simply and Ichigo started laughing again.

"You're never gonna give him a break, are you?" Ichigo said after he had calmed down enough to speak properly and not giggle while speaking.

"Nope."

Ichigo rolled his eyes, "Hey, you wanna come over after school? I don't have anything to do and Renji is going out of town for some soccer thing so I'm gonna be bored."

Grimmjow scoffed slightly, "Sure, why not?" Of course, he would love to be your entertainment since your ass of a boyfriend is gone. He grumbled silently to himself as he picked up the pace walking. "By the way Berry," Grimmjow snickered when Ichigo shot him a death glare, "Why'd you leave the classroom anyway?"

"To waste time, it's boring in there." He chuckled and Grimmjow shook his head as he laughed too.


"I see you drivin' round town with the girl I love and I'm like, forget you! Oo-oo-oo!"

Grimmjow looked out of the corner of his eye to give Ichigo a strange look, "What the fuck are you singing?" He asked. A hand in his pocket as he and Ichigo were walking down the sidewalk, on their way to the Berry's house.

"That song has been stuck in my head all day, it's an American song." Ichigo laughed and Grimmjow scoffed.

"You listen to that shit too much."

"Don't even start Grimmjow. You listen to American music just as much as I do." Grimmjow stayed silent because he couldn't really say anything. He did like some American bands and singing groups.

"Sounds like shit if you ask me. But of course it could just be that you're bad at singing." He grinned.

Ichigo frowned and punched Grimmjow in the arm, "Shut up! I can sing better than you can so you have no room to talk." He pouted and crossed his arms over his chest defiantly.

"That's a lie. You just suck." He snickered and Ichigo punched him in the arm again before grumbling under his breath. Grimmjow chuckled once and looked to the ground, "So where's Red at? I know you said some soccer thing but where is it at?"

"Somewhere in Osaka. The team left right after school today and won't be back for a few days, and knowing Renji he probably forgot his phone charger so I won't even get to talk to him." He sighed slightly.

"Hmph, well that's a bitch." Grimmjow was inwardly grinning. Serves you right.

"It's whatever, he'll probably come back and be like 'ohemgee I'm so sorry!' and yadda yadda yadda." Ichigo said waving his hand in the air nonchalantly.

Grimmjow nodded and took in a breath with his nose, "Oh really," Grimmjow said making himself sound interested but he really couldn't give a rat's ass about Renji or anything to do with him. "So how're Karin and Yuzu?" He changed the subject.

"They're doing fine. Karin is getting into sports, mostly soccer, I blame Renji for that. Yuzu found a little lion plushie in my closet. I didn't even know I had one in there, so I let her have it. She named it Kon." Ichigo smiled.

Grimmjow smiled slightly, "Haven't seen em' in a while, it's been about two month since I've been over," Grimmjow stated scratching the back of his head lightly. "If we hang it's usually at school or some place in town."

"Now that I think about it, you're right." Ichigo said looking up at the sky, "We should hang out more often."

"Maybe if Red wasn't in the way." Grimmjow mumbled under his breath.

"What'd you say?"

"Yer face." Grimmjow grinned and Ichigo punched him in the arm.

"Weirdo."

"I know you are but what am I?"

Ichigo huffed out a breath and Grimmjow snickered. Soon enough they were approaching Ichigo's house and Ichigo stopped at the door. "Take two and a half steps back, and one to your right."

"Really? Your dad still does this?" Grimmjow asked moving where Ichigo told him to. "He's gained some distance."

"Yeah, I know." He said using a key to unlock the door.

"ICHIIIIIIIIIIIGOOOOOO!" An overly happy Isshin Kurosaki yelled as a flying kick came straight towards Ichigo's face. Ichigo simply ducked as his dad flew over him. Isshin hit the ground hard and rolled until he stopped and turned his head smiling weakly. "Good lesson today my son." He said as he stood back up and dusted his pants as Ichigo walked inside, and kicked off his shoes.

Grimmjow snickered. "Nice one there Kurosaki senior." He chuckled and he followed Ichigo into the house and took off his shoes too.

"Grimmjow! It's been much too long! How have you been?" The excited man spoke a mile a minute.

"Dad shut up. You talk too much. Where are Karin and Yuzu?" Ichigo pushed him out of the way since he had suddenly popped out of nowhere

"Karin is at the park and Yuzu is helping down the street at Urahara's."

"He'll walk her home, but Karin'll need someone to walk her home." Ichigo said aloud but it was mostly to himself. Grimmjow laughed as he listened to Ichigo be all big brotherly. Grimmjow himself had a sibling. Neliel Tu Oderschvank, his twenty one year-old sister who could be the most mature and helpful person ever, or she could be the biggest baby he had ever seen.

They weren't blood relatives though; Grimmjow's mother was one of those 'I care for everything and everybody' people so when her best friend had died from an ongoing illness when Grimmjow was about twelve, she had given Grimmjow's mother the right to look after Nel. Grimmjow loved Nel like they really were siblings and the same was for her, and he honestly wouldn't want it any other way.

Ichigo started up the stairs and Grimmjow was following right after, enjoying the view as he followed. Once Ichigo was in his room he threw his bag on his bed and Grimmjow placed his on the floor.

"Grimmjow."

"Hm?"

"Pick a game for us to play, I'll go get us somethin' to drink." Ichigo stated as he turned to his door.

"Okay." Grimmjow answered offhandedly and went to the stack of games sitting next to a small TV inside Ichigo's room. Grimmjow picked out fighting game and placed it inside the station right before Ichigo walked into the room with two bottles of water in hand, "We're out of everything else. Sorry."

"Ah, no problem."

After about an hour of playing a game, Grimmjow had just beat Ichigo and he was glowing with mirth, Grimmjow received a phone call. "Hello? ... No I'm not alone… Why? ... He probably won't even care, or even know what I'm talkin' about… Fine." He was annoyed by the caller and he rolled his eyes. "Hola... Estoy bien. ¿Qué quieres?... ¿Porque?…¿Porque yo?... Bueno, yo no voy a hacerlo... No me importa. Encontrar a alguien más, vete a la mierda tú. Adiós." Grimmjow took the phone away from his ear and he rubbed his temples. He had been away from Aizen and his goons for about three weeks and he did not want to start up again. Whoever had just called him wanted him to join with some new person and go to a Gotei owned area and find some kids who have been trying to cause trouble with Las Noches. He grumbled under is breath and tossed his phone over to the side.

Ichigo was currently dumbfounded, "What in the fucking hell was that?" Ichigo asked. His eyebrows lost at his hairline.

"Dumbass, it's called Spanish. I'm pretty sure you've heard of it." Grimmjow scoffed slightly and said off handedly as he defeated Ichigo's battling character yet again.

"I know that, but how the hell do you know how to speak it? Fluently at that." Ichigo asked incredibly amazed.

Grimmjow bit his lip slightly, "My dad spoke it all the time so I guess I just kinda learned it." He shrugged his shoulders. Grimmjow was obviously lying. But with Ichigo's common sense, he couldn't tell.

"Oh. Well that's cool." He said getting up from his seat on the floor and he flipped off the station. He stepped onto his bed. "I'm getting bored with that. Want to do something else?"

"I don't really care." Grimmjow stated and he looked Ichigo up and down while turned around. Damn Renji was a lucky bastard.

Grimmjow pursed his lips slightly, "So, how're you and Red?" He asked sounding interested.

"We're okay. He's a little too clingy and kinda freaks out when I'm joking around with friends." Ichigo said crossing his legs.

"That'd kinda get on my nerves if I was you." Grimmjow said sitting up on the floor so he could look at Ichigo's face. His eyes never leaving Ichigo's wandering one's until they finally met.

"I just tell him that he needs to back off, that usually shuts him up." Ichigo stated simply and he shrugged. As Ichigo stared into Grimmjow's eyes he couldn't help but feel that he was lost in them. Likea sea of blue.

Grimmjow stared back at him, his eyes never leaving Ichigo's. Don't even start Ichi, not again. Ichigo was doing the same thing he had done twice before. The last time though there was a brush of lips and Grimmjow almost lost it. Ichigo was moving a bit closer and Grimmjow closed his eyes. He wouldn't be responsible for what might happen.

Stop. Stop! STOP! Ichigo's brain was yelling but his body was ignoring. He couldn't help but move closer to Grimmjow, he wanted to get closer to his piercing blue eyes that somehow warmed his body. He leaned closer to Grimmjow and he could feel the blue haired male's breath come out of his nose.

'Anyways these are timeless days. Please don't fade away; I guess I'll see you next Sunday. Don't get caught in the down slide, don't get caught in the down slide, don't get caught in the down slide…'

Ichigo blinked as if he was in a dream and his eyes widened as he backed away from Grimmjow, blushing fiercely. Grimmjow's eyes were still screwed shut and he bit his bottom lip slightly when he heard Ichigo move away. Shit that was close.

He opened his eyes slightly and Ichigo answered his phone with a slightly shaky hand, "Hello?" He said into the receiver and looked at Grimmjow before blushing possibly brighter. "Hey Ren. Yea, I'm fine."

Grimmjow sighed heavily and stood up, "I'm goin' to the bathroom." He stated simply and left without a backwards glance. Once in the bathroom, Grimmjow splashed his face with cold water and scrubbed his eyes fiercely. "Motherfuckinggoddammit." He mumbled darkly under his breath and he dried his face with his shirt. He wouldn't be able to be around Ichigo if he kept up this act of his. He scrubbed his hand over his face again and he heard a knock on the door.

"Dad said I gotta go pick up Karin from the park. You wanna come?"

"No, it's getting' late. I need to be headin' home myself." He opened the door and walked by Ichigo to get his bag from his room. He slid by Ichigo at the top of the staircase and he stepped quickly down the stairs.

Ichigo was still at the top and when Grimmjow was out of earshot he rammed his head against the wall a few times, "No no no. Stupid brain!" He growled slightly. He couldn't keep doing that to Grimmjow. He might start thinking the wrong thing and he really didn't want to tell Renji about a budding thing he might feel for the blue haired devil. He climbed down the stairs solemnly, "You want me to walk you before I get Karin? It's not any trouble."

Grimmjow was already slipping his shoes on, "Naw, I don't wanna trouble you, I'll just go." He said over his shoulder and opened up the door. "I'll see you later Ichi." He closed the door as Ichigo raised his hand to wave.

"Ichigo Kurosaki you stupid S.O.B." He ran his hand through his unruly orange hair and sighed heavily. He had been feeling like this for at least a month. He and Renji had entered their fourth month together and Ichigo had been feeling really strange when he was around Renji. He really liked Renji , he told him all the time. But a little while ago he hadn't been saying the same to Ichigo. He put it off as that Renji would tell him as soon as he was ready. He'd been waiting for two months for Renji's reply, and with Ichigo's stupidity, he'd probably keep waiting.

Ichigo sighed again, biting his lip as he went to the door to slip on his shoes.


Grimmjow stuffed his hands in his jean pockets and he was grumbling to himself. That was the third time. Third time had done something like that. It was as if Ichigo enjoyed teasing him into a rage that just made him want to kill something. He kicked a nearby bottle and he watched as it hit something and bust into a millions of little pieces.

"Why the fuck does this shit gotta happen to me?" He growled and he looked up at the darkening sky. Ichigo was being totally irrational and just overall unfair! Always playing tricks like this. It could be a stare from across the room, or a little intentional nudge or touch. But what had just almost happened was almost just too much. It was almost as bad as when Ichigo brushed his lips over Grimmjow's about two weeks previous.

Grimmjow rubbed one of his eyes before he ran his hand through his unruly blue hair. He probably wouldn't be angry at Ichigo if he wasn't with someone. With Renji being with Ichigo it just made Grimmjow's life a complete and udder hell, and it put him through a lot of emotional distress. Made him feel like one of those super hardcore masochists. He scrubbed his face with his hand and picked up his pace. He wanted to get home, shower, and crawl into bed. Not thinking about what almost happened in Ichigo's room.


Ichigo threw himself into his bed and he groaned into his pillow. He felt like a huge prick. He knew that what he was doing to Grimmjow was utterly wrong and just over all dickish. Grimmjow was his best friend, next to Renji of course. But, even if he was dating Renji, Ichigo felt like he had known Grimmjow way longer than Renji. Grimmjow told Ichigo everything and Ichigo told Grimmjow everything. Ichigo had already found out that Renji couldn't keep his big mouth shut. He had told him one of his most embarrassing secrets and found out that half the school knew it by the next day.

He simply said "oh that was supposed to be a secret?" and Ichigo got so frustrated that he ran out of the classroom.

And who had followed? Certainly not Renji, it was Grimmjow.

Ichigo had thought to himself sometimes that Grimmjow had had some type of little crush on him. But that dissipated when Grimmjow made no move to get Ichigo away from Renji in any way, shape, or form.

Ichigo sighed as he flipped onto his back and stared at the ceiling. He always thought too hard when it came to Grimmjow. And not just Grimmjow, he always thought too hard when he thought of his relationship with Renji too. He felt that he was somehow being pushed away from him and it always made Ichigo feel cold. Inside and out, his hands would be freezing all the time. He blew it off as 'oh you know what they say about cold hands'. It was understood by others, but he himself couldn't understand it.

He looked down at his hands. Earlier that evening when he was with Grimmjow, he felt really warm inside. Warmer than what he had felt in a while. He rubbed his hands together fiercely for friction and for heat. When he halted his movement, he felt the warmth of his hands as it came and went. He sighed slightly and sat up in his bed; he turned his head to the window and pursed his lips slightly as he looked at the flickering street light below. Kind of reminded him of what he felt like right now. He just wanted to be able to turn out a light and all of his troubles all be fixed.

He stood up off of his bed and walked to his desk to at least get a little bit of studying in before he took a shower and bed. Flopping into the chair at his desk, he took out his laptop and went to an American radio website. As the next song came on, he smiled at the irony of the music. An American hit by one of his favorite female artists Katty Perry came on and he couldn't help but mouth the lyrics of 'Hot and Cold' as it played through the laptop's speaker.


A/N: Yea, about the referral thing, kinda guessed. It's what my school does if someone's sleeping in class so I hope it made sense Haha. I'm still really sorry though, I hope this chapter makes up for the time! I will say again, I've already started on the next three chapters so with luck! They will be out way sooner than this one was. Review please! Always open to constructive criticism. Another thing! I tried my hardest at the Spanish bit, so if I didn't spell anything right or if the grammar is off somehow please correct me. It's good to learn from mistakes!