A/N: This is the last chapter of Tea Leaves. I know it took a while before I finally got it up, but at least it is now. I must warn you that this chapter contains a lot of shounen-ai, nothing above t though. Enjoy reading the very last chapter.

Grimmjow woke up the next day fairly early. Too early if you asked him, he was lying comfortable and didn't want to open his eyes. He pulled the thing he was holding in his arms closer, wait thing? He opened his eyes and almost thought he was still sleeping, because Ulquiorra was lying in his arms facing him. Grimmjow immediately wanted to retract his arms, but then he saw Ulquiorra was still sleeping. His expression softened, Ulquiorra was pretty cute when he was sleeping. Wait what was he thinking? Ulquiorra, cute? No, he didn't like Ulquiorra! That was impossible. Right? He looked at Ulquiorra's face again. His eyes slowly traveled down to the other's lips. Would they be as soft as they looked like? Without thinking, he slowly leaned in. Just an inch or two before he touched Ulquiorra's lips, the raven-haired teen made a little noise. Grimmjow snapped back to his senses and quickly turned around, pretending to be still asleep. He felt Ulquiorra sit up, and stayed dead silent. Maybe he doesn't notice.

"Grimmjow, I know you are awake, let's eat breakfast and start moving." Grimmjow groaned and sat up. How could Ulquiorra know he was awake? It couldn't be that Ulquiorra was already awake when he woke up, right? Probably not, if Ulquiorra was awake then why did he make a sound instead of shoving Grimmjow away? He looked up when Ulquiorra tapped him and gave him a sandwich. No, he had probably been sleeping, he just sucked at fake sleeping. Why did he actually try to kiss Ulquiorra? This mission really couldn't last any longer or he'll do something really stupid.

"When will we reach the shop?" The sooner he was back in Las Noches, the sooner he would be rid of those emotions and all the thinking!

"I think just before dinner." That was way too long, he wasn't going to last so long without going crazy. They finished breakfast and got out of the tent. When Grimmjow got out there was a huge surprise waiting for him.

"Wow." He was standing in front of a gigantic lake. The lake they slept next to the first day was like a little puddle in comparison to this. How did he not notice this the other day?

"Come, Grimmjow." Grimmjow turned around and saw the tent gone, Ulquiorra must have put it away already. He was also already standing a fair distance from Grimmjow.

"Coming!" He tore his gaze from the lake and ran towards Ulquiorra. While Grimmjow was walking behind the other, his gaze slowly descended to his butt. Immediately his eyes snapped up again. Why did he stare at Ulquiorra's ass? Maybe he did know why… no, that wasn't it! He was not attracted to Ulquiorra!

"Grimmjow, you need to watch your step here, or you will fall in the lake." Argh, that's it! That little display of concern just made his last piece of self-control fly out of the window. He'll admit, he is in fucking love with Ulquiorra Cifer! And he didn't care if Ulquiorra liked him back or not. He was going to kiss him, now! He took a quick stride towards Ulquiorra, he had his arm already outstretched to turn him around, when… he slipped on the mud Ulquiorra warned him for and fell in the lake.

"Waahh!" Splash! He resurfaced, the water was actually a quite nice temperature. He saw Ulquiorra looking down at him. He looked like he wanted to say something like 'Didn't I tell you to watch out?' and then give a sigh, but since we're talking about Ulquiorra here, it wouldn't happen, so nothing was said. Grimmjow felt stupid, now Ulquiorra totally thought he was worthless. First, he falls down on that open spot with the moss, and now he falls in the lake. Although he the first time really regretted it, he didn't now. The water was nice so he was actually glad he fell in.

"Come out of the water, Grimmjow, we still need to go a long way." He didn't want to get out of the water. He looked at the edge, it was rather steep, which brought him to an idea. With an as innocent as he could manage look on his face he stretched his arm out to Ulquiorra.

"Can you help me out?" Ulquiorra looked like he was contemplating it for a moment before he put his bag down and bend a bit to grab Grimmjow's hand. This was a dumb idea, as soon as Grimmjow felt Ulquiorra's hand in his he pulled down. Ulquiorra's eyes widened in shock before he hit the water. Grimmjow just laughed when Ulquiorra resurfaced looking mad.

"We don't have time to be playing around, Grimmjow." That's when Grimmjow got another great idea. He moved in front of Ulquiorra and put his hands on both sides on the riverbank next to Ulquiorra.

"I am not playing around at all." He said in a seductive voice. He leaned forward, it was now or never, and pressed his lips to Ulquiorra's. When he didn't feel the other pushing him away, he decided to add a bit more pressure to his lips. He moved his hands to hold Ulquiorra's face. He caressed it before pulling away. He saw the other looking confused at him. "I really like you Ulquiorra."

"I am sorry, but I don't understand." Great how was he going to explain this? He released Ulquiorra and created a bit of space between them.

"What do you understand?" He asked in a soft tone.

"I understand that what you just did is called a kiss. I have seen humans do it, but I don't quite understand why."

"Well you kiss someone when you're attracted to that person."

"What is an attraction, actually? I have heard from the word, but I don't understand the meaning of it."

"How can I explain this? You're attracted to someone if you think about that person a lot and care about them." He saw Ulquiorra still looking confused. "You know, you don't want the person hurt, you get happy when they're happy, it's harder to get mad at them, you enjoy being close to them and you feel the need to be in physical contact with them. Do you understand?"

"A bit, I think."

"And? Are you attracted to me?" He wouldn't admit it, but he was kind of nervous.

"According to your description of an attraction, I am." Phew, that was a relief, he might have thought the other liked him but he wasn't completely sure. Grimmjow leaned in and kissed the raven-haired teen again. This time though he slid his tongue over Ulquiorra's lips, but Ulquiorra didn't open them. The blue-haired teen pulled back.

"You're supposed to open your mou-" Ulquiorra cut him off.

"We don't have time for this, we still need to carry out our mission." He pushed Grimmjow away and climbed out of the water. Grimmjow climbed out of the water as well and hurried to walk beside Ulquiorra. He let his hand brush the other's, hoping the Ulquiorra would get the hint. He felt Ulquiorra touch his hand back, so he supposed that Ulquiorra was okay with it if he held his hand. Therefore, he did. They walked like this until it was time for a break, an important break, namely: lunch break. They sat down on an open spot, Ulquiorra put his bag off but didn't take any food out.

"Well, can I have a sandwich?"

"I'm sorry to say, but I don't have any left." Oh, that was a pity, but it did explain why Ulquiorra didn't want to waste any time. Although it wasn't really a problem, he would just need something to distract him from his hunger. He looked over at Ulquiorra, yeah that would be a good distraction.

"If we don't have any food left then I'll just have to sedate my hunger in a different way." He stalked over to the teen and kissed him. He succeeded in slipping his tongue in Ulquiorra's mouth this time. Grimmjow moved one of his hands to tangle in Ulquiorra's hair and the other to encircle the teen's waist. After a few seconds he felt Ulquiorra hesitantly move his arms around his neck. Grimmjow was paying close attention to the other, so he didn't miss the little gasp Ulquiorra gave when his tongue grazed the teen's. He gave Ulquiorra's tongue a playful shove, hoping Ulquiorra would start moving. It worked, Ulquiorra started kissing back more fervently and thus moving his tongue. This way a little battle for dominance began. Grimmjow won and pushed Ulquiorra down to the ground. The raven-haired teen gave a little moan before Grimmjow pulled away for breath. He waited a few moments before he kissed Ulquiorra again. He moved the hand that was on Ulquiorra's waist under the teen's shirt. He slowly traced Ulquiorra's abs before moving his hand up and grazing the other's nipple. Ulquiorra moaned again, louder this time, and moved his head away breaking the kiss. Not that Grimmjow minded, quite the opposite it gave him a great opportunity to mark what was his.

"Grim, Grimmjow… we, we must…" Ulquiorra gasped before he could finish his sentence. Grimmjow smirked against Ulquiorra's neck, he hadn't thought sucking on Ulquiorra's pulse point would have such a big effect. "We must continue… our way to the store."

"I don't think Aizen minds if we are a few minutes late." Grimmjow whispered in Ulquiorra's ear, before giving it a lick and sucking on the lobe. He felt the other shudder and thought the teen would give in.

"No, we… we must leave." He felt Ulquiorra was trying to push him away. "Grimmjow, off, now." Grimmjow supposed Ulquiorra tried to be threatening, but when he looked down, he was sure that was impossible. Ulquiorra's face was flushed, his hair disheveled and his pupils were widened in lust. However, since Grimmjow didn't want Ulquiorra to be mad at him, he got off.

"Fine, but we'll continue this some other time." After a few moments to catch their breath, they started walking again. It already started to get dark when they finally reached the city. Well it actually was more like a village then a city. There were still a lot of people on the streets because of the nice weather. It was a village where everybody seemed to know each other, the houses looked small, but cozy and most doors were open. You could only distinguish the stores from the houses because of the signs above the doors. Grimmjow followed Ulquiorra in one of them. The inside of the store was crammed with all kinds of tea, even though the door was open there still was an overwhelming smell of it. Grimmjow walked to one of the shelves and suddenly understood why they needed to get the tea here. On the shelf were flavors standing he hadn't even known the existence of! He heard someone give a little cough to get his attention, so he turned around. Before him stood a woman probably around her late twenties.

"I help you?" She asked in a strange accent.

"No, my friend is already getting the tea." She seemed to have understood the 'no' but looked utterly confused because of the rest of the sentence. Fortunate for him Ulquiorra came walking towards him. The teen seemed to have understood the problem before even asking and said something to the woman in a language Grimmjow had never heard. The woman seemed to understand and, after saying something as well, walked away to tend another customer.

"I got the tea leaves, now we must go back to the forest and call someone to open up the garganta." Ulquiorra started walking away and Grimmjow immediately followed.

"How do you know we're having a signal there?" They reached the forest and walked to a spot where they couldn't see the city anymore.

"We already had a signal this morning, so it would only be logical if we have it here as well." Ho, stop, they already had a freaking signal this morning? He had walked a whole fucking day for nothing? His eye twitched, but before he could get really mad he remembered what happened that day. He supposed it wasn't that bad, 'cause now he could do this. He walked over to Ulquiorra, who just got the calling thingy out of his bag, and grabbed his arm. He spun Ulquiorra around and connected their lips. Ulquiorra kissed him back for a few moments before he pulled back. While Grimmjow was still holding him, he pushed some buttons and held the device at his ear. Grimmjow waited until Ulquiorra's conversation ended before he gave him one more quick kiss. Then he asked the question that had been burning in his mind for the last few hours.

"Are we gonna keep our relation a secret from the others in Las Noches?" Sure most of the people there didn't care, but Nnoitra, Szayel and Gin probably wouldn't shut up about it.

"I don't see a reason why we should, we will just do what we want and when someone finds out, so be it, unless you want to keep it a secret of course." Did he? Sure, he would get a lot of annoying comments if those irritating three found out, but why would he care about that?

"You're right let's just act like we wanna." After he had spoken those words, he let Ulquiorra go. Just in time, because a garganta opened in front of them and Szayel stepped out.

"Hi guys, I'm sorry you ended up so far from the spot we planned you to come out in. How was your little stay in the forest?" Because of the smile on Szayel's face, Grimmjow wasn't so sure if it was an accident anymore. When nobody answered, he continued. "Don't forget to hold a device before you walk into the garganta." They took the devices form Ulquiorra's bag and walked through the garganta. The garganta ended in Szayel's lab, where they got out of the gigai and changed into normal clothes again.

"Nice, I really missed my normal clothes." Grimmjow stretched a bit and was pleased to find his clothing wasn't restricting the movements. "Ulquiorra, can we get something to eat before we go to Aizen?"

"You know we can't, we must first bring Aizen-sama the tea leaves." Fine then they'll go to Aizen before eating dinner, although the dinner in Las Noches had already ended. They walked to the throne room, where they knew Aizen would be. Ulquiorra knocked on the door.

"Enter." Came the ever-calm voice of their leader. They walked in and bowed before Aizen.

"We apologize for the wait, Aizen-sama, but we came out on the wrong spot." Ulquiorra said.

"It's fine, did you finish the mission according to plan, even though there were some inconveniences?" Ulquiorra nodded and showed Aizen the leaves. The ex-captain gestured to a little table standing in front of the throne. Ulquiorra walked up to it and placed the little package on it. "Very well, oh before I forget, Grimmjow you still need to get punished for the food fight, as soon as I find a suitable punishment I'll let you know. You may go now." They left the throne room and walked to the kitchen together. They found one of the low ranked arrancars who worked in the kitchen and ordered him to make some food for them. When it was done, they ate it together, sitting opposite of each other at a table.

"You know this is almost like a date. Just the two of us eating dinner together, the only thing we're missing are the candles." Grimmjow smiled at Ulquiorra, a real one, not a smirk or a grin, no a genuine smile. And maybe he got a little crazy because of his stay in the woods, but he swore he say Ulquiorra give a little smile back.


That was it! No smut, though, if anyone wants it I suppose I could make a sequel with a lemon in it, but I didn't want to do it in this story, because it's already up for a few weeks so if there are some people of 14 or something reading it then it wouldn't be fair if I suddenly changed the rating. Soooo, I didn't have any more to say, I hope you enjoyed the story as much as I enjoyed writing it. Bye!