Chapter 4

"It is birthday number two in the big house." Shiro said walking into the kitchen that morning. "Happy Birthday Grimmy."

"Thanks." Grimmjow said with a smile.

"What are you doing today?" Shiro asked

"I'm not having a huge party I'm just spending time with my parents and Big Nel, Nnoi's coming too, and then later tonight I was hoping we all could go to like a dave and busters or something."

"Ooo that sounds fun actually a friend of ours owns a spot like that we could go there and if I call now we can be the only one's there."

"Sounds great."

"I will be making the call soon then."

"Who you callin?" Ichigo said walking into the kitchen "Happy Birthday" he nodded to Grimmjow.

"Thanks." Grimmjow nodded back

"Ikkaku and Yumi they own that video game dance spot thing and Grimm wants to go to one for his birthday."

"Ooo sounds fun." Ichigo said, he put a finger up to stop Grimmjow from saying something. "I know Shiro said the same thing I don't need you clarifying it." Grimmjow smirked. "So what else you doing today?"

"Hanging with the family." Grimmjow answered

"Sounds slightly terrible only because your mom is just as crazy as ours."

"Yes but what do I do she birthed me." Grimmjow shrugged standing up. "I better get going I promised breakfast."

"Their making you pay for breakfast on your birthday?" Shiro asked

"Mom made us buy her a $700 bag for our birthday." Ichigo said

"Let me guess" Grimmjow said with a chuckle "because she birthed you and without her where would you be."

"Exactly." Ichigo and Shiro laughed.

"What y'all laughing about." Shinji said walking in the kitchen in his robe.

"Mom jokes." Grimmjow answered before leaving the kitchen.

"Something I'll never understand." he opened the refrigerator and took the chocolate covered fruit out of it.

"Why you in your short robe?" Shiro asked "And why you getting fruit out? Who you bout to fuck?"

"Roger is on his way over and we're spending the day together." Shinji smiled like a kid in a candy store. "I'm trying the have a good day date cuz he has work later tonight."

"So we're going to be hearing sex sounds all day." Ichigo said sticking his tongue out in disgust. "And wasn't Roger just here?"

"Yes but I miss him and I'm horny." they heard the front door open and close. "He's here, yay." he left the kitchen to meet his boyfriend, while he was walking out Toshiro and Ulquiorra were walking in.

"What's up with him?" Toshiro asked.

"Roger's here." Ichigo said with an annoyed expression.

Tosh rolled his eyes. "I don't like him."

"We know." Shiro said.

Shinji walked in the kitchen dragging Roger behind him so he could get his sex tools. "Hey guys." Roger said to them.

"Hey." everyone said back except Toshiro who said "I don't like you."

"I know Tosh." Roger said brushing it off Toshiro told him he didn't like him everytime he saw him.

"I didn't say it so we could have a conversation about it." Toshiro said with an indifferent expression.

"Tosh" Shinji whined "please be nice."

"I only know how to be brutally honest." Toshiro shrugged.

Shinji rolled his eyes and pulled Roger out of the kitchen. "Lets go fuck."

Starrk walked in as they walked out him and Roger eyeing each other as they crossed paths. "I look better than he does." Starrk muttered getting orange juice out of the refrigerator. "I bet you my dick is bigger too." he drank straight from the bottle getting looks from everyone. "What?"

"Can you not be a savage?" Toshiro said

"He just really wants to fuck Shinji so his manners are a little off." Ulquiorra explained boredly.

"Really?" Shiro said lifting an eyebrow. "I thought y'all were just flirting."

"Nope, Shinji's his type." Ulquiorra said "Crazy, brutally honest, fat ass those are his favorites."

Shiro then got an idea and lifted a devious eyebrow he looked at Starrk. "You know..."

"Shiro stop." Ichigo said "Put your eyebrow back in its place we are not playing that game."

"What game?" Starrk said

"No game." Ichigo said looking at Shiro.

"Fine no game." Shiro said "but I will be watching closely."

"Just don't fuck anything up." Toshiro said. They all heard a door open and close again. "That's a big ass door if we can hear it open and close all through the house."

"Toshy." Toshiro's best friend said walking into the kitchen.

"Oh my God." Toshiro screamed running over to her hugging her and spinning her around. "Why didn't you tell me you were coming? I have so much to tell you."

"I wanted to surprise you." Momo said she looked over to Ichigo and Shiro "Sorry I couldn't come to your birthday party I was doing charity work in South America. Happy belated birthday."

"Thanks." they said "Its fine, Tosh wouldn't of gotten drunk if you were there." Shiro said

"Hi Ulqui and Starrk." she said greeting them "How are you its been a long time since we talked."

"Actually I have to tell you a lot so we have to go." Tosh said dragging her out of the kitchen.

"And there they go we won't be seeing them for a while." Ichigo said

"Why?" Starrk asked.

"Tosh and Momo are as close as close could get, she -well Aizen- adopted him off the street when he was ten and she taught him to play all the instruments he plays. They've been attached at the hip for a long time and whenever they see each other they have to unload." Ichigo explained

"Its actually really cute." Shiro said "Tosh lights up whenever he sees her and they're both midgets."

"Knock knock." Ichigo and Shiro's dad said walking into the kitchen.

"We getting all types of visitors today." Shiro said hugging his dad. "What's up and why are you still in Cali?"

"Well I have news for you two and instead of calling I thought I'd come over and tell you plus I'm also giving checkups." Isshin answered

"But we're fine." The twins whined.

"Hey Mr. Kurosaki." Renji said walking into the kitchen.

"Wait I thought your parents were divorced?" Starrk asked

"They are." Shiro answered

"Then how come everyone still calls your mom Kurosaki?"

"Oh cuz Kurosaki is easier to say than Yamamoto."

"Yamamoto? As in the the man who makes those fancy cars and such."

"Yeah. So basically if we never got famous we'd still be rich."

"Shiro I'll check you first." Isshin said putting on his stethoscope.

"Whyyyyy" Shiro whined "I'm fine."

"You still need checkups every now and then."

"Oh yeah our dad's a heart surgeon." Ichigo said "So we've always had money."

"Open up." Isshin said so Shiro would open his mouth he looked closely with a flash light. "Alright stand up." he lifted Shiro's shirt in the back putting the cold stethoscope on his skin. "I know its cold." he chuckled "Think you'd be used to it by now."

"You never get used to a cold stethoscope, dad." Shiro said

"Okay breath slowly in and out." Shiro did as he was told. "Alright." he moved to his chest. "Sounds good. Now to check your blood pressure." he reached into his doctor bag and pulled out his blood pressure cuff and put it around Shiro's arm. "Relax." he tightened it putting the stethoscope on his arm and then he loosened it. "Got damn, boy." he yelled "Have you been exercising and or eating healthy?"

Ichigo laughed. "No."

"Shut up." Shiro snapped "You know I can't exercise, dad."

"And why is that?"

"I get tired real fast and I don't like moving too much." he whined.

"You need exercise and healthy food you know your body isn't as strong as others so you have to work a little harder to maintain your health."

"I haven't been sick in three years." Isshin gave his son a stern look. "Fine. I'll eat less during the day."

Isshin rolled his eyes and moved to Ichigo. "Let me see the knee." Ichigo pulled his shorts up on his left leg so he dad could inspect it. "Have you been dancing?"

"Yes but only for about a week." Ichigo answered

"Everyday?"

"Yes."

"Have you been wearing your brace?" Ichigo began to nod his head 'yes' but knew he couldn't lie and shook his head 'no' "And I'm guessing you don't ice it either." Isshin rolled his eyes. "I don't know how many times I have to tell you you either wear the brace and alternate between ice and heat after dancing or you lose the ability to dance all together. Why are you so damn stubborn."

"Well you are my dad." Ichigo muttered

"Hey where's Bya?" Shiro asked

"He's got a headache." Renji said sipping orange juice.

"Well since I'm playing doctor I should go see what's wrong." Isshin said standing up.

"Good luck." Renji said to Isshin as he left the room.

"Are you sick Shiro?" Ulquiorra asked

"No but I was." Shiro answered. "When my mom was prego she thought there was only one baby but there were two it turns out I was really small and Ichi was on top of me so I couldn't be seen. When I was born I didn't really have vocal cords, I didn't have skin, and my immune system was so weak the common cold could kill me. I lived in the hospital til I was one, from 2 to 5 I went once a week for surgery on my vocal cords and I didn't go to school til I was 10 cuz I could have gotten sick and died so I stayed home all day everyday til I was 10 years old and then I got the okay to go to school with the other kids. I'm actually really pale and my hair is white -which is why my name is Shiro- and I'm also an inch shorter than Ichigo I used to be a foot shorter than him when we were six I looked three. I have a picture on my phone of us when we were kids but its upstairs."

"Well you've come a long way." Ulquiorra said

"Yeah I did." Shiro smiled "And now I'm fabulous."

"Knock knock." Isshin said knocking on Byakuya's bedroom door.

"Come in." Byakuya said barely above a whisper.

Isshin walked in. "You sound horrible." he sat down on the bed taking out his stethoscope. "What kind of day are you having?"

Byakuya sighed sitting up in bed a little. "Um today is like a 7." he said weakly.

"Have you had a 10 recently?" Byakuya nodded slowly. "When was the last time you had a 10."

"Well at one point I only had a 10 every six months but now I get em at least once a month. Its getting worse I'm having trouble breathing and simple things like walking around and sex are leaving me out of breath." he finished breathing heavily.

"And they still don't know about your heart condition?"

"No."

"And why not?"

"Cuz they're going to worry too much and coddle me and I just don't want to go through that again." he sighed "Can you just check my heart?"

"I will but I can tell you now its not going to be good news." he put the stethoscope on and listened to Byakuya's heart. "Oh my god this is not good."

"What? What's wrong?"

"Your heart is abnormally slow I honestly don't know how you're sitting up talking to me right now. I'm going to be honest with you here, if you do not get your heart surgery in the next six months you're going to die. I've been reviewing your health records lately and the fact that you're still alive is a miracle. Someone with a heart as bad as yours shouldn't work as hard as you do the stress you put on your heart should have killed you long ago."

"So what are you saying?"

"You need to schedule a surgery or you won't make it to your 27th birthday."

Byakuya sighed "I'll just schedule it for January 30th...Fine I'll schedule it as soon as I can just don't tell my grandfather."

"I haven't told anyone anything its all up to you."

"Thank you."

Isshin stood up slowly so he wouldn't shake Byakuya too hard. "If you take your medication now you'll be okay later but I'm serious your heart problems are getting worse not better."

"I know."

"Is everybody ready to go?" Shiro yelled up the stairs Grimmjow had gotten back from spending the day with his family an hour ago and now they were getting ready to go out for the night for the rest of Grimmjow's birthday. "Hurry up I told them 10 and its like 9:30."

"Shut up" Shinji said coming down the stairs. "We coming, damn."

"I think we should meet in the kitchen before we go."

"Why?"

"I think we should brief the newbies on Kaku's and Yumi's relationship before we go."

"You're right. Hey guys, we're going to talk in the kitchen before we go." Shinji yelled up the stairs.

"Okay." Grimmjow said coming down the stairs "Stop yelling the most important person is here."

"You must really thing you're something special." Shinji said

"I know I'm something special." Grimmjow smirked

"You're the kinda guy I would beat up in high school." Shinji rolled his eyes walking to the kitchen.

"Nu un." Shiro said "You'd fuck him."

"And then I'd beat him up."

"Who's fucking who?" Starrk said joining the group.

"Shinji would sleep with Grimm and then beat him up." Shiro answered

"Dude." Starrk said looking at Grimmjow "I called dibs."

"Shut up, Starrk." Grimmjow rolled his eyes and followed Shiro to the kitchen.

"Were is everyone else?" Shinji asked propping his feet up on the table.

"Bya is going to kick your ass if he finds out you put your feet on the table." Shiro sat down next to him.

"Well he's sick so he won't find out." Shinji stuck his tongue out at Shiro.

"Why are your feet on my table!" Ichigo yelled making Shinji jump and fall out of his chair. "I'm improving on my Bya impression." he laughed.

"That's not funny." Shinji growled getting back in his chair.

"What's not funny?" Renij said.

"Shinji falling out of a chair." Shiro said laughing

Renji laughed "That's hilarious."

"What's hilarious." Ulquiorra asked following Toshiro.

"Shinji falling out of a chair." Renji said

Toshiro laughed "That's hilarious."

"What's hilarious." Nnoitra said

"Shinji falling out of a chair." Toshiro said laughed

Nnoitra laughed "That's hilarious."

Shinji pouted "Okay guys, shut the fuck up."

Shiro laughed some more before he sobered up. "Okay, before we go I think you should be briefed on Yumi and Ikkaku's relationship before we go to their spot." he looked at Ichigo "You've known them the longest I think you should tell the story."

"Okay, I guess." Ichigo shrugged. "Um...it all started in the like the first grade the teacher assigned partners and Yumi got Ikkaku and then Yumi latched on to him and started calling him his boyfriend and he never stopped. Ever. It got to the point where he followed Ikkaku everywhere and tell everyone he was his boyfriend and he would beat people up on his behalf and Ikkaku hated him he would scream at him and push him away and they'd fight but Yumi never left. And then high school came around and it got weirder, if that's possible. Ikkaku came around and they became friends even though Yumi still called him his boyfriend and then Ikkaku would start to date which never got too far cuz Yumi would go crazy and like try to kill him -and just so we know who him is him is Ikkaku. And whenever Ikkaku fucked someone they would fight and then Yumi would fuck someone and everything was all good until one day senior year Ikkaku just stopped fighting it and was like 'okay fine he's my boyfriend'. And that's the crazy insane story of that love."

"Moral of the story" Shinji said "You can make someone love you. Second moral of the story I'm not crazy for hitting my boyfriends cuz I know someone who broke his boyfriend's jaw."

"That's fucked up." Starrk said "That name sounds familiar."

"Well we found out" Shiro added to the story "His parents were super rich and never paid attention to him and when they did they would try to make him become friends with some girl so they'd grown up and get married making both families richer. So we'll blame the parents."

"I think I slept with a guy named Yumi." Starrk said "And I only remember his name cuz he was crazy."

"Well if he was crazy he was certainly your type." Ulquiorra said.

"Remember that one chick who thought they were in a relationship but they weren't." Grimmjow said "That was scary she tried to hit him with a car."

"Rebecca." Starrk said reminiscing "She was as tight as a virgin, unfortunately she gave head like one too."

"I heard Shinji gives great head." Shiro said

"Perfect head but there's no need to discuss it." Shinji corrected

Starrk lifted an eyebrow and looked at Shinji. "Perfect head, Blondie?"

"Only good boys get head from me, Coyote." Shinji winked and stood up. "Lets go, I'm ready to drink and eat hot wings."

"Didn't you just eat like 30 minutes ago." Nnoitra said.

Shinji glared at Nnoitra "You don't tell me when to eat. You don't know my life. You don't know my struggle."

"Heeeeeey." Shinji said to Yumichika and Ikkaku walking into the video game arcade/ dance club with everyone else walking in behind him. "The gangs all here."

"I see." Yumichika said walking over to hug Shinji and the others. "How are you?"

"I'm fine having boyfriend troubles as usual." Shinji shrugged

"Well" Yumichika continued to hug the other members of Xcution. "I have extremely good news."

"You're prego with Kaku's baby?" Renji said

"If only." Yumichika flipped his hair and then held up his left hand. "I'm getting married."

Shiro, Shinji, Ichigo, and Toshiro screamed and clapped. "Yay a wedding." they said "We love weddings."

"You proposed to Ikkaku?" Renji said

"Yup, I remember him." Starrk said

"Me too." Grimmjow, Nnoitra, and Ulquiorra said.

Shinji gasped. "You fucked the whole band?!"

"In my defense" Yumi started "It was back in high school so I'm not a groupie."

"What's with all the screaming?" Ikkaku said walking into the main room with everyone else.

"Hey didn't you try to go to our school?" Nnoitra said.

"You were going to leave me?" Yumi whined

"What the fuck, man." Renji said "You were going to be Jaguar? Wildcats for life."

"Hey it didn't work out so it doesn't matter." Ikkaku rolled his eyes. "So I take it he told you we are engaged."

"Yeah, you let him propose to you?" Renji asked jokingly.

"Shut up, stupid. I proposed to him last week."

"Last week?" Shiro screeched "And you didn't tell us why?"

"Because the wonder triplets can't keep a secret."

"Hey I didn't tell Yumi you fucked that cheerleader." Ichigo said "That was Shiro."

"Shinij was the one who told him to fuck him up." Shiro defended.

"Either way I have a favor to ask you guys." Yumi said shutting them up.

"You want us to sing." Renji said.

"Yes, three songs including The Only Exception that's one of my favorites."

"Thanks for being a fan." Toshiro dead panned.

"I want a song for when I walk down the aisle and to be sang quietly while we do our vows and I want one that you'll sing after we kiss and The Only Exception is our first dance. Oh and the first two songs I want them to be new."

The boys looked at him and then huddled together. "Now I thinking this is supposed to be free" Shiro whispered "But we usually get paid $500,000 to do parties and weddings and shit and we only do one song. He asking for three." they broke apart. "You got 1.5 million?"

"Technically, yes I do." Yumi flipped his hair. "But you'd think that with all the favors I've done for you I'd be free."

"We're kidding of course we'll do it?" Shiro said "When's the wedding?"

"November."

"You know we have an album to work on, right?" Shinji said

"I mean you can put the songs on the album after you sing em at my wedding." Yumi shrugged

"I'm thinking of a song right now." Ichigo shrugged. "That's what you get when you let your heart win." he sang loudly getting laughs from everyone except Yumichika who was glaring darkly at him.

"And Shiro don't make it a Shiro show." Ikkaku said

"That's going to be hard." Toshiro said under his breath.

After dancing and playing games all night the boys came home around 1 a.m. but neither of them were tired -except Starrk- so they lounged around the house entertaining themselves in different ways. Shiro decided to go skinny dipping in the outside pool enjoying his time by himself. Nnoitra came outside a while after he did not even knowing Shiro was outside which gave Shiro the perfect time the scare him. Shiro sank down the the bottom of the pool waiting for Nnoitra to get in and when he did he popped out screaming making Nnoitra yelled and then curse him out.

"What the fuck his wrong with you?" Nnoitra yelled splashing Shiro.

"What is right with me." Shiro giggled swimming over to him. "Just so you know I'm naked."

"What is up with you being naked all the time? Its like all the time, at any given time."

Shiro shrugged "I just like the feeling it gives me I feel free like writing a song or something."

"So when you're having a hard time writing you get naked?"

"Sometimes." he swam around the pool. "Why don't you like being naked you always have clothes on?"

"Because I'm a normal human being."

"There's no such thing as normal its just something people say to fit in."

"True."

"Can I tell you a secret?"

"Sure."

"One time I fell down some stairs and broke my ribs but I didn't call the ambulance the...stairs did." Shiro swam around in circles

Nnoi thought he knew what Shiro was talking about but he decided to play along with Shiro. "Why are you telling me this?"

"Cuz sometimes I'm afraid the stairs are going to kill me and I just need someone to make sure he doesn't."

"My mom's stairs tried to kill her once, he choked her until her eyes rolled behind her head."

"I want you to know that I don't let him do things to me I've tried to fight him but he just shows me what death feels like." he dunked his head in the water so Nnoitra couldn't see his tears.

"One day he's going to show you what death is."

"I used to think I was ready for him to show me but now I'm not."

"Why?"

"I have too much to live for." he swam up next to him. "You wanna know another secret?"

"Sure."

"Ichigo didn't pretend to be me because we're the 'ultimate performer' he pretended to be me because I wouldn't cancel a show because I was in the hospital." Nnoitra turned to Shiro watching him wipe tears from his face. "I don't wanna be scared anymore. I wanna be free."

Nnoitra pulled him in for a hug. "You'll be free soon enough."

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