No Author's Note
Warnings: Foul language, some mature content I guess but not really
Disclaimer: I do not own Bleach. Only my characters.
Chapter 3
Kurono avoided Grimmjow for weeks after they'd kissed. But it was getting to the point where she missed having him around. His replacement, Luppi, was a prick. He may have looked like a cute kid, but Kurono had soon found out that that was not the case. He constantly leered at her and his eyes were always on her chest. She even thought about seeking out Grimmjow but her pride wouldn't let her.
One day, as she was walking through Hueco Mundo, she came across Luppi leaning against a wall, watching her as she walked. His eyes moved across her body.
"Hey," he called, pushing his body off the wall.
"What do you want, Luppi?" she asked coldly.
"Aw, don't be like that, Kuro," he said with a grin. "I just want to talk."
"Don't call me that," she said as she glared at him. "There's no reason for me to talk to you." His lecherous grin widened. He sauntered up to her and wrapped an arm around her waist.
"Why don't we go to my room to talk?" She shoved him off of her.
"Back off, Shrimp." His grin quickly changed to a scowl. He grabbed her hair and yanked her down to his level.
"You better watch it, bitch. Don't forget our difference in rank," he sneered. He forced his lips onto hers. She gagged as his tentacle-like tongue shoved its way into her mouth. It was at that moment that Grimmjow entered the hallway. He saw Kurono struggling to get away and the smug look on Luppi's face. In an instant, Grimmjow had thrown Luppi into the wall and shoved Kurono behind him, shielding her with his body.
"What the fuck do you think you're doing, you little shit?" he growled.
"Mind your own business!" Luppi yelled back at him.
"She is my business!"
"Whatever. I don't have time for this," Luppi scoffed. He glared at them one more time and walked off. When he was out of sight, Grimmjow turned to Kurono. She refused to look at him as her cheeks burned in embarrassment and angry tears filled her eyes. Out of all the people who could've caught her like that, it had to be him. She didn't want him to see her being weak. Grimmjow couldn't control himself when he pulled her to him and smashed his lips onto hers. His tongue pressed against her lips and she willingly parted them. He explored her cavern as she taste drove him crazy. Kurono felt her body going limp when someone cleared their throat. She shoved Grimmjow away and they both looked at the person who had interrupted them. Start and Nnoitora stared back.
"I knew it," Nnoitora said he grinned evilly.
"I would recommend not making out in the hallway. If it had been anyone else, you two might have had some trouble," Stark informed them. Kurono's cheeks burned more. Without a word, she turned on her heel and hurried down the hallway.
"Damn it!" Grimmjow growled and jogged after her.
Kurono was so pissed! It was just not her day! First, she had to be saved by Grimmjow. Then, he kissed her again. Having Stark and Nnoitora catch them only made it worse. Her cheeks flamed in embarrassment. Her head fell into her hands as she wished that Grimmjow had just left her alone in the desert.
"Kurono! Damn it! Open up!" Grimmjow yelled as he pounded on Kurono's door. Even though there was no sound from the room, he knew she could hear him. He pounded on the door even harder. Still nothing. "Fine! Next time Luppi comes around, don't expect me to save me you, stupid woman!" The door flew open and a very pissed off, dangerous-looking Kurono glared at him, her eyes glowing demonically.
"I never asked you to save me," she growled back at him. He got in her face.
"So you liked that little creep shoving his tongue down your throat?" he asked harshly.
"I didn't say that! All I said was I didn't ask you to save me. I could've taken care of him," she replied.
"Then why didn't you?"
"I-I…Because…"
"Enough said." He turned and, as he was going into his room, he heard her whisper.
"I just didn't want to admit my weakness…"
She knew he hadn't heard what she'd said, but she had needed to say it. She was feeling a painful sensation in her chest that she didn't understand. She wasn't supposed to have a heart, but she could've sworn that her heart was hurting.
"How could I let this happen? How could I let him make me feel like this?" she asked quietly. Somehow, Grimmjow had made himself an important part of her life.
The former Sexta paced around his room angrily as jealousy burned within him.
"What the hell is going on? Why do I care so damn much?" he asked himself. He ran his fingers through his blue hair. "There's got to be something wrong with me. Just when did she become so damn important?"
A few days later, Grimmjow was sent back to the Human World along with Luppi and some others. Much to Kurono's dismay, Grimmjow's absence caused her to be stuck in a horrible state of boredom. She decided to take Lani and Lanai to train with Harribel's fraccion.
The three Arrancar arrived at Harribel's training room to find the Fraccion training while their master looked on. Kurono used the word training loosely as it seemed Apache, Sun-Sun, and Mila Rose were doing more arguing than actual training. She sent the girls to the three older Fraccion while she joined Harribel where she was leaning against the wall. Harrible said nothing but her brow furrowed as she sniffed the air.
"How is it that you smell like Grimmjow? I thought you were trying to avoid him again," she asked. Kurono's eyes widened in surprise.
"I smell like him?" Kurono questioned back. There was a soft laugh from Harribel.
"What made you come here? It's not very often that you and your Fraccion join us." Kurono had become good friends with Harribel but both women were both so closed off that they didn't visit each other often. So it was surprising that shed showed up.
"In all honesty, I'm bored. I'm so used to training with Grimmjow or arguing with him. But since he's not here, I don't have anything to do," she admitted. Harribel shook her head.
"When are you two going to realize that you need each other?" At that moment, there was an explosion and the two Espada looked up. Lani and Lanai were standing together while the other three looked at them from the ground.
"We did it!" the sisters cried out.
"Looks like your Fraccion have gotten stronger," Harribel noted. Kurono looked at the girls. They were pretty beat up, but they were jumping up and down excitedly. Apache jumped up and glared at the girls.
"When the hell did you learn that?" she yelled. They cowered away from her.
"Apache, knock it off," Harribel called out. Suddenly, another Arrancar entered the room.
"Lord Aizen requires all the Espada to meet in the throne room immediately."
Grimmjow stood in the center of the room with the auburn-haired human girl that Kurono had seen when she'd fought the teal-haired soul reaper.
"Orihime, I want you to demonstrate your power by restoring Grimmjow's arm," Aizen told the girl.
"Lord Aizen, General Tosen completely disintegrated the limb. There is no way this girl can bring it back!" Luppi yelled, anger seeping into his voice.
"Silence. Go ahead, Orihime." The girl nodded shakily and an orange force field surrounded the area where Grimmjow's arm used to be. There was a collective grasp as his arm slowly started reform. Kurono couldn't help but feel happiness well up inside of her. Once his arm was completely back, he flexed it and wiggled his fingers. His trademark insane grin spread across his face.
"Hey, woman," he said. Kurono started to step forward but then she realized that he was talking to the human. "Fix my tattoo as well." She did as he said and soon the scarred flesh turned back into a gothic six. As soon as she finished, he sonidoed over to Luppi, impaling the smaller Arrancar with his newly reformed arm. "There's no way you could be the true Sexta," he growled as Luppi coughed up blood. He shook Luppi's now limp body off his arm. He could feel eyes on him from across the room. He turned back to see red eyes looking back into his, full of jealousy. He smirked as he thought about how sexy she looked when she was jealous. He winked at her and laughed when her eyes widened. He turned back around and, just out of pure spite, incinerated Luppi's body. He spit on the ashes and walked out of the throne room.
Grimmjow was about halfway down the hallway when he heard footsteps and felt a familiar riatsu hurrying after him. He stopped and turned around. She said nothing as she grabbed his left arm. She squeezed his forearm and turned it over to examine it. She let his arm drop and pulled his jacket off his left shoulder. Her fingers fluttered over the place where his arm had once been severed.
"It's real, Kurono," he said with a chuckle. She looked up at him and something in her eyes looked strange.
"I'm glad," she replied quietly. He frowned.
"What's up with you?" he asked. She blinked a couple times then scowled.
"It's nothing," she replied. She tried to move past him, but he grabbed her arm.
"Don't lie."
"I mean it, Grimmjow. It's nothing." He was getting really tired of her acting like that.
"Whatever. I'm getting sick of this." He turned sharply and walked away, leaving the younger Arrancar in the hallway alone.
Kurono sighed as she wandered the hallways the next day. She suddenly heard someone cry out. It had sounded like the human girl. She got close to a doorway and heard other voices along with the human's. She stepped into the room to see Loly and Menoly beating up on the girl.
"You two!" she yelled, her voice making then cringe. "What do you think you're doing?" They tried to explain but stumbled over their words. "If you're going to beat up on someone, why don't you do it to someone who can take it?"
"Huh?" the other Arrancars asked.
"I will take the girl's place."
"Sweet! We get to beat the shit out of an Espada without any consequences!" Menoly said, cracking her knuckles.
"Why are you helping me?" Orihime asked. Kurono looked at her disdainfully.
"I'm not doing it for you. This is payment for healing Grimmjow's arm. That's all," Kurono answered. Menoly landed a solid punch to Kurono's stomach and the Espada doubled over. Loly kicked her hard in the jaw and the taste of blood flooded her mouth.
"This is awesome!" Menoly cheered as she landed a kick to Kurono's chest. Kurono felt her anger rising quickly but she shoved it back down as they continued to abuse her.
'This is for Grimmjow,' she reminded herself. Suddenly, a familiar voice boomed through the room.
"What the fuck is going on?" Grimmjow roared. Kurono heard Loly and Menoly gulp. She looked up from where she lay on the floor.
"Kurono stopped them from hurting me and told them that they could hurt her. She said it was payment for restoring your arm," Orihime answered. Grimmjow growled angrily as he turned to Loly and Menoly.
"You little bitches," he sneered. He sonidoed to Menoly and tore off one of her legs. She fell to the ground, screaming, and Loly ran to her. Soon, they were both gone and Grimmjow was kneeling next to Kurono.
"Why are you here?" Kurono asked him.
"I was looking for you because you missed a meeting. And your Fraccion couldn't find you," he replied. "You should have done this, stupid woman." He looked to Orihime. "Heal her," he commanded.
"I don't need her help," Kurono spat venomously.
"Shut up and take it!" he growled back. The three sat in silence as Orihime healed her.
"All finished," the auburn-haired girl said a short time later. Grimmjow looked down at Kurono.
"At the meeting, Aizen told us that we're being invaded by Kurosaki and a couple of his friends. Sadly, I'm not going to be the first one to get to him." He looked over at Orihime. "When he gets here, heal him so our battle will be fair." She nodded and Grimmjow stood, pulling Kurono up with him. He pulled her after him as he headed to his room.
"Let go of me!" she said angrily. She tried to free her wrist, but his grip only tightened. They reached his room and he yanked her inside. "What do you want?" He quickly pinned her against the door.
"You're going to shut up and fucking listen," he practically snarled. She glared at him, but said nothing. "You didn't need to do that. It's disgraceful for an Espada to be injured by an unranked Arrancar."
"I did it so you wouldn't owe that stupid girl anything," she said quietly. His eyes narrowed.
"You say that kind of shit yet you act like you hate me! You give me that 'look', and then you're glaring at me. We kiss and then you avoid me for weeks. I don't know what the fuck is going on in your head, but it's pissing me off." He backed away and turned his back to her. "I feel all fucked up whenever I'm around you. And every time I think that you're feeling just as fucked up, your attitude does a complete 180. I'm getting tired of this. Either you want me around or you don't. Which is it?" he asked, facing her again.
Kurono only looked back at him.
