Author's Note: Yay! Another chappie! I was so glad that plot bunnies took over my body. Lately I've been addicted to Glee so I wasn't sure I could update this.
Thanks to DEMONIC BLACKMAGIC and .SnowX for reviewing and for fueling my urge to update.
Disclaimer: I don't own Bleach.
"Goodnight Ulquiorra!", Nel said her cheery goodbye while planting a kiss on the pale cheek of her boyfriend. She then looked at his emerald green eyes with her onyx ones and saw concern filling them.
"Nel, I really think that-", she cut him off by placing a slender finger on his mouth.
"Don't worry. I'm a big girl and I don't want to make you go all the way back home after dropping me off at my house.", Nel said exasperatingly. Ulqui and her dad were so protective of her. She just had to go to Ulquiorra's house for a project and the two made such a big fuss about it. She loved them to bits, she really did, but sometimes she felt insulted that they didn't trust her.
"I promised your dad that I'd bring you home and he'd kill me if I didn't bring you home safe and sound.", the emo looking teen let out a smirked as he knew that he'd caught her. Nel was such a papa's boy.
"Nothing will happen to me! And lets just say something does, I'll tell him that I forced you not to follow me." ,the busty teen said as she countered Ulquiorra's thoughts. She planted a ninja kiss on his lips, catching him off guard and giving her enough time to escape. Nel giggled as she snuck a peek back at boy's shocked expression.
Once she was sure that he couldn't catch up to her, Nel slowered her pace and just enjoyed looking at the moon, it was a new moon. So caught up in her moon gazing, she didn't notice the four figures sneaking up behind her in the shadows.
When she did realize the presence following her, it was too late. She was pinned to the wall while another man was running his hands down her body. The rest just undressed her with their eyes. Nel just closed her eyes regretting her decision to go home alone and braced herself for what was to come. But suddenly, a hands holding her lost their grip as the sound of noses cracking and men begging for mercy filled the quite alley air.
When Nel did open her eyes, she was shocked to see all four of her captors lying on the ground in a bloody heap and her savior holding a hand out to her. At first she didn't respond because she was in awe of the man in front of her, he looked around thirty with eye catching blue hair and azure eyes as well as a built figure to finish of the look.
The man snapped his fingers in front of her face, afraid that she went into shock causing her to break away from her trance and blush due to embarassment that she was caught staring.
"Are you okay?", he said in a deep mascular voice.
"Yeah, I'm fine. Thanks mister...", she trailed off not knowing his name.
"Grimmjow Jeagerjaques. But you can call me Grimmjow since my name's pretty much a tongue twister, and drop the mister, it makes me feel old", the blue haired man said looking off to the side.
"Okay. Thanks Grimmjow. My names pretty hard to pronounce so you can just call me Nel.", the green haired teen said while offering him a hand to shake, which he accepted.
"So why are you here in the middle of the night alone?", Grimmjow asked, not wanting to walk in awkard silence.
"Umm...you see... I went to my boyfriend's house to work on a project and he offered to walk me home but I declined. Guess I should've accepted his offer.", she said while sheepishly rubbing the back of her head.
"We should learn from our mistakes anyway. I'll walk you home.", he offered while letting her lead them to her apartment.
Once they reached the apartment complex, Grimmjow's mouth hung wide open. This was the same apartment complex he and Ichigo used to live in. He still remembered everything about the time he and the orange head were together. Grimmjow never got over him mainly because when he was with Ichigo, that was the only time in his miserable life that he felt complete. He then wondered if Ichigo still lived here, probably not. Who knows, he might have forgotten about him and married a pretty young girl or even guy with his dauaghter. That thought made Grimmjow's heart clench.
Lost in la la land, he didn't notice the chipper girl ask him what's wrong until she gingerly touched his shoulder. He looked down at her concerned face and thought that he must've been day dreaming.
"Grimmjow are you okay?", she asked with a tone perfectly matching her expression.
"Yeah. It's just that, an old friend of mine used to live here." ,he said while nonchalantly shrugging his shoulders.
"Okay. So, goodnight then. I hope you get home safely.", she said while jogging to the building and waved at him when she was a few meters away.
Grimmjow then sat down on a nearby bench and continued to stare at their apartment at the west side as if doing so would make Ichigo magically appear. To his surprise, a few minutes later when he was about to leave, a mass of unmistakable orange hair came out to the balcony. Grimmjow's heart almost skipped a beat as he took in the man's features. He hasn't changed since a couple of years ago, he just seemed to get taller and formed more muscle. He saw the apple of his eye run a hand through his orange locks. Oh how Grimmjow wished to do that again.
He then decided that today was full of surprises when he saw a mass of sea green tacking Ichigo in a bear hug. He immediately noted that it was the same girl that he saved that night. His first thought saw that she was his girlfriend when he remembered her saying that she just came from her boyfriend's house. That's when his brain put two and two together, SHE WAS HIS DAUGHTER!
The blue haired man almost felt his eyes falling out of his sockets when he kept repeating the fact in his head. It seemed that she was telling him about what happened, considering that Ichigo looked like he was scolding her, then his eyes widened considerably and when his head whipped his way Grimmjow was able to hide behind a bush. Grimmjow didn't know why he hid but something inside him compelled him to do so.
After making sure that Ichigo's attention was no longer directed his way he made his way out of his leafy cover. He took one last look at the gorgeous being on the balcony and made his way home. He knew they would still meet sooner or later, he'd make sure of it.
"Dad! I'm home!", Nel said cheerily, giving her dad a big bear hug on the small balcony they had almost making him fall of the railing.
"Nice to know you were able to come home safetly.", Ichigo emphasizing the word safetly by giving her a small glare.
"W-what are y-you talking about d-dad?", she stuttered while rubbing a hand behind her neck.
"Don't think that I don't know what you did. Ulquiorra called me telling me that you left without him.", he said with a stern fatherly tone.
"I'm sorry dad. But I'm here now aren't I?", she said nervously.
Ichigo could sense the nervousness in her voice and asked her, "Did something happen to you?"
Knowing that her dad wouldn't let it go, she explained, "Well... when I was on my way home, four guys caught me and were about to rape me. But then this other guy came, saved me and brought me here safe and sound!" She ended dreamily as if she was retelling a fairytale.
Then Ichigo pulled her into a crushing hug muttering things like, "I'm so glad you're safe." or, "Why didn't you bring Ulquiorra with you."
Once the overly protective father got over the shock of his daughter being attacked he asked her, "So, did this man tell you his name or what he looked like. I want to thank him."
Nel's eyes sparkled as she remembered how her hero looked like, "He had the weirdest, yet coolest ever blue hair and eyes as well."
At this point, Ichigo stiffened and thougth, 'I can't be him!'
But then the teen continued her rant, "And his name was Grimmjow Jeager..umm... something. Alll I know is that his first name is Grimmjow."
The sea green haired girl saw her father's eyes widen and asked him in concern, "Dad are you okay?"
Feeling some wet droplets prick the edges of his eyes, he pushed them back and gave her a small nod and questioned, "Is he still here?"
Nel uncertainly replied, "Yeah... He was waiting in front of the building. He said that an old friend of his used to live here."
Ichigo's head automatically searched for the familiar head of blue hair but found nothing. 'Grimmjow...'
Finding her dad's actions and expressions strange, she said, "Dad. I'm fine and I think the stress is getting to you. Why don't you get to bed?"
The doctor considered her words and decided that she was right, he's had too much shock today with his daughter being jumped and his ex saving her. Besides, he was finished with all his paper work. Might as well get to bed early.
After saying a goodnight to Nel, he changed his clothes and entered the confinement of his bed only to spend about one hour thinking and remembering Grimmjow, not knowing that the said man was doing the exact same thing. And after saying each others' names, they both fell into a simontaneous sleep filled with memories and dreams of one another.
Nel put a worried frown on as she washed the dishes in the sink. Why did her dad act that way when she described the blue haired man and said his name? Did her father know him? Probably not, her dad told her all about the people he knew. She she finished rinsing of the eating utensils she took a bath to remove the dirt the she accumulated on her clothes and skin from her assault. When she finished, she dressed up in her sleeping attire and called up her worried boyfriend while brushing her hair.
"Nel are you okay? Did something happen to you?", Ulquiorra started bombarding her with questions once he picked up the phone.
She chuckled, breaking him from his worried bombast and prepared herself for the inevitable scolding she would get from the pale teen once she told him the story of what happened.
After finishing the story of what occured in the alley and getting an earful of scolding from him she finally told him what horried her and put down the brush in front of her vanity mirror, "I don't know Ulqui. Dad just really worries me. I haven't seen him so speechless in a long time."
Nel heard him sigh from the other side of the phone and told her what his opinion was, "Well, I think that you should just let your dad tell you when he wants to. Questioning him won't do any good, especially if that's the way he acted."
The beautiful teenage girl let a smile grace her face as she answered, "Thanks Ulqui."
"No problem. Goodnight.", Ulquiorra said as his own smile could be sensed from the other line.
"Goodnight, I love you.", Nel said while a light pink dusted her cheek from saying such intimate words.
"Love you too.", her boyfriend said as he cut their conversation.
Author's Note: Hope you guys enjoyed it! I actually wrote the last part while had a bad case of the hicups, so I'm sorry if there are a lot of mispellings and wrong grammar. R&R! Till next time! :D
