Next chappie has been written! Hope you enjoy!

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"Hello Ichigo!" A large busty redhead called as she jumped up to them. Shiro gave her boobs a surprised look before turning his attention to her face. She had weird hairclips he noticed.

"Oh, hey Orihime." Ichigo acknowledged as he placed his bag on his desk before looking around, "Where's Uryuu? I thought you two were inseparable ever since you started going out."

Orihime blinked and looked around, "Oh, he was here a minute ago. He must have gone to the bathroom or something."

She giggled and ran off to go find her boyfriend. Shiro made a slight questioning mew. Ichigo scowled, surprising Shiro, until he made sure everyone wasn't looking and then smiled.

"That was Orihime; I've known her for a while. My old friend Tatsuki introduced her to me a couple years ago. Tatsuki is over there." Ichigo pointed to the back of the room at a girl with short, spiky black hair. "Uryuu is annoying, but we're still close friends. He's skinny and pale with shoulder length dark blue hair. I don't know where Chad is, but he's a big tall Mexican guy, really quiet too. Then there's Renji. He has red, spiky hair; kind of looks like a pineapple. He's pretty tall too. Then there's Rukia. She's one of my closest friends. Always manages to get me out a depression one way or another. Though she can be real annoying sometimes. She's a midget too; really short with black hair that ends at her shoulders. The there are a couple of my friends, not real close ones, but just friends. I can't give you all their detailed descriptions, but one's bald, one's a girly boy, one has HUGE boobs, even bigger than Orihime's-" Shiro mad a snort of disbelief, Ichigo ignored him and continued, "one's got a '69' tattoo on his cheek and always hangs out with one of the gym teachers, Kensei-sensei. Um, one's real short; he looks like he should be in elementary school. He always hangs out with a short black haired girl who always puts her hair in a bun. It's obvious they like each other, but neither will admit it. Um, lots of teachers like me, but they don't count...So that's pretty much it." Ichigo said, still smiling but it was wiped off his face as a low pitched, but obviously feminine voice rang out.

"Ichigo!" Rukia shouted, marching up to him.

Shiro hissed at her and she quickly changed her gaze to meet the small cat. Her face went from serious and stern to chibi eyes and a huge smile.

"He's so cute!" She squealed, launching herself at Shiro.

"Rukia don't-" Ichigo was cut off as Shiro jumped off and Grimmjow swung at her, knocking Rukia to the ground. Grimmjow then stepped protectively over Shiro, his teeth bared and hissing.

"Ow! What the hell? Train your pets better Ichigo!" She screamed, holding a small cut on her cheek.

That did it. Grimmjow launched at her, snarling and furious, but Ichigo stopped him and glared at Rukia.

"They're not pets now and they haven't ever been, Rukia. They're smart, living creatures and they're my family. If you ever refer to them as pets again Grimmjow won't be the only one you'll have to worry about." Ichigo snapped, rubbing Grimmjow's ear in a calming fashion until the large panther was calmed down.

Rukia's eyes watered and she ran out, but Ichigo didn't give her a second glance and continued to cuddle with Grimmjow and Shiro.

Everyone in the room was completely silent, until Ichigo glared at all of them and they continued talking, pretending as if nothing happened. That is, until the teacher burst in.

"What on earth happened in here? Miss Kuchiki was running down the hall crying with a small gash on her cheek!" The teacher demanded.

Ichigo spoke up, considering no one else would, "She frightened Grimmjow and he lashed out. That's all. No one is seriously hurt, everything's fine."

The teacher gave the large cat a small glare, but otherwise ignored the issue, "Alright then, if that's all. Ichigo and the rest please put your hybrids in the pen in the back so we can continue with the class."

Ichigo nodded along with the rest and moved their hybrids to the pen in the back. It was just a small metal fence going from the left to the right wall and was about 6 feet away from the back wall. It didn't have much point to it but separating the two species.

Grimmjow curled up on his usual mat in the far right corner and motioned with his paw for Shiro to snuggle. Shiro knew if he didn't Grimmjow would only get mad and no one would be happy, so he complied and curled up between Grimmjow's right and left front paws. Grimmjow sighed contently and pulled Shiro closer. Shiro whined slightly, but didn't make any move to stop him.

Ichigo smiled at the bond they had both managed to form already when he made sure no one was looking.

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"So we can be normal at lunch?" Shiro asked confused as he looked at his white hands and the rest of his mostly human body, his bento box sitting in front of him on the pavement of the roof.

"Yeah, pretty weird, huh?" Ichigo replied taking another piece of food out of his own bento box and eating it while taking a quick look at Grimmjow who was sleeping soundly against the fence lining the roof.

"Yeah, weird." Shiro replied as he lifted his lunch and started to eat it. After he finished chewing his first bit he stared up at the sky.

Ichigo gave him and odd look, but once again, decided not to push it and continued eating. He was knocked out his musings when Shiro spoke up.

"Ichigo."

"Hmm?"

"You know about earlier?" Shiro twiddled his thumbs, but stopped in favor of reaching up and placing a hand over the hole in his chest.

Ichigo abruptly stopped eating and gave Shiro a sad sort of stare, "If you're not ready you don't have to tell me. It took Grimmjow a while-"

"No." Shiro cut in, letting his hand drop back to his lap, "I want to tell you, I really do. I-I just don't know how. I mean, I've kept it bottled for three years now. I don't know how to go about it or how to start..."

Ichigo smiled sadly, "Then you're not ready. Think it over and then you can tell me, alright? There's not need to rush it."

Shiro was just about to respond when the roof door flew open and some of Ichigo's friends walked out into the vast amount of fresh air; Renji, Rukia, Chad, Uryuu and Orihime.

"Hey, Ichigo." Renji greeted.

"Hi Renji." Ichigo responded, mad that his conversation with Shiro was ruined just when he was about to open up.

Renji frowned, noticing Ichigo's sour mood.

"Wake up on the wrong side of the bed?" He mocked gruffly.

"Yes actually. I kinda jump started my day with making sure Grimmjow didn't rape Shiro." Ichigo retorted.

"Shiro? Who is Shiro?" Uryuu cut in.

"Me." Shiro responded, waving slightly with an awkward smile. He lowered his hand when Uryuu gave a started gasp along with the rest of the small crowd.

"What?" Shiro barked out, not liking how they were opening staring at him.

"Your fur!" Uryuu exclaimed running up to Shiro and scaring the daylights out of him, "It's so magnificent! Such pure white and such deep red markings! It's absolutely amazing!" Uryuu marveled as he rubbed Shiro's ears between his fingers. Shiro quickly batted his hands away and cowered behind Ichigo, who scowled even harder.

"He's a bit shy right now Uryuu, try to refrain from scaring him for life, please." Ichigo drawled sarcastically, pulling Shiro in front of him and rubbing his ears affectionately; calming the hybrid down marginally.

"Oh, I apologize, Shiro." Uryuu replied, sitting opposite Shiro, in the circle they were slowly starting to form, to eat. "I guess I should introduce myself. I'm Uryuu Ishida, a mouse hybrid who belongs to Chad." Uryuu pointed to Chad.

Chad took this as his cue to introduce himself, "I'm Yasutora Sado, but everyone calls me Chad. I'm Uryuu's owner."

Orihime decided to introduce herself, "I'm Orihime Inoue. I'm Rangiku's fox hybrid, but she's not here right now."

Renji decided to jump in, "I'm Renji Abarai. I'm a dog hybrid who belongs to Byakuya Kuchiki, Rukia's older brother-in-law."

Rukia piped in, "I'm Rukia Kuchiki. Byakuya Kuchiki's little sister-in-law and mostly Renji's owner."

"Are fucking not!" Renji barked.

"Are too! You're all mine!" She shouted back, earning a few gasps and explanations of surprise.

Rukia blushed brilliantly, "N-not like that!" She defended.

"Sure as hell sounded like it!" Grimmjow broke in, awoken from his slumber and laughing maniacally.

Renji was as red as his hair and trying to stutter out an excuse, but he only earned more laughs and mocks.

"Renji and Rukia sitting in a tree-" Shiro began.

"K-I-S-S-I-N-G!" Grimmjow mocked with him.

"First comes love-" Ichigo continued.

"Then comes marriage-" Grimmjow encouraged.

"Then comes a baby in a baby carriage!" Ichigo, Shiro, and Grimmjow all laughed at Renji and Rukia's expense.

"I'm sure that'll happen with Grimmjow and Shiro before anyone else!" Renji fought back causing Grimmjow to stop laughing and Shiro to blush like a fire engine. Ichigo just laughed even harder.

"Grimmjow and Shiro sitting in a tree-" Renji began, but couldn't finish before Grimmjow tackled him.

They wrested for a bit before the bell went off signally the end of lunch.

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"School was awesome! I can't believe I've never gone before!" Shiro announced as they walked down the street to return to Ichigo's house.

"You've never gone to school before?" Ichigo asked, startled.

"Nah. I look too weird and I never had an owner around my age and Zan couldn't take me to school cuz he's too old." Shiro smiled crossing his fingers and stretching his arms behind his head.

"Oh, that's too bad. I'm glad you liked your first day of school so much. Although you don't have to pay attention to the classes, so I guess it would be fun for you." Ichigo replied.

"Classes? What classes?" Shiro joked and Ichigo cracked up along with Grimmjow who was surprisingly quiet up until this point.

At that point Ichigo realized that maybe, just maybe, he wouldn't be able to frown or scowl again. He was just too happy.