Me: Sorry for not updating Thursday and Friday, I had to study for a test and take one, hate math so much, but I only have a month left of it so -dances happily- Well hope you like this chapter, I had to rewrite it as it got deleted from my comp -cries- why does the world torment my creativity? Oh well no harm no fowl as I remember it.

Ichigo sat on his bed as Rukia cleaned his cut. It stung a little, but it didn't make him cry out loud. Rukia saw the slight flinch in Ichigo's eyes. She felt rage go through her as she placed a cloth over the cut to keep it from being infected. Leaping upward, Rukia smiled at her work and walked away with Byakuya to leave Ichigo to his thoughts.

Ichigo sighed and got up off his bed. The damn lord had brought up Ichigo's past with his actions. Ichigo shivered at the look he was given before he hit the lord's hand. That look made him feel filthy under his skin and Ichigo wanted nothing more than to scrub away the feeling. Going out of his room, Ichigo made his way to the bathroom, more specifically; to the tub.

He turned on the water to a full blown hot steamy scolding stream. He knew that he might get burned, but the feeling was below his skin and the water could reach it. He stripped down to his bare skin and all, but lept into the water. He felt the water burn his skin, he didn't care as he started scrubbing with a rag at his skin and hair.

'Why isn't the feeling going away?' he thought as he scrubbed harder and more frantic. He hissed as he felt his skin tear and started to bleed, he suddenly felt the feeling leave him as the water turned a dark pink. He stayed in the water until the bleeding stopped from the water and got out. He was covered in the dark pink and quickly went to clean up so Byakuya, Rukia or some poor maid would stumble upon the bloody water.

Circling his waist with the towel, Ichigo looked at his skin. It was bright red with the water and raw with the scrubbing. He saw that on his bicep that he had made the skin so thin that it was what cause the water to turn that dark pink colour. He ripped part of the towel and wrapped up his bicep so it could heal, it would scar as he scrubbed it way to hard and way to much.

'At least the feeling is gone' he thought as he slipped out of the bathroom and down to his room to get changed, his dirty clothes were in his hand and he would wash them later.

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Grimmjow watched from the edge of camp as his little cousin Nel run with her little group of girls. He just hoped that they wouldn't get in trouble or he'd have some people complain to him about their behavior again.

He saw Nel's group had grown since she first started the Female Association of the Gypsies or F.A.G. For short. It wasn't really an association, but a group of girls that were part of the gypsy family. They mainly dealt with thievery and assassination when needed as well as cooking and cleaning for the males of the group.

The group contained Nel, Lilinette; Starrk's younger sister, Yachiru; the medic's daughter, Apache, Mila-Rose, Shun-shun; one of the older female teacher's sisters, Loly, Menoly; two previous whores that turned into runaways after being rapped at 14 and now gypsy women with two children. The rest were different girls who came from some sort of mysterious background like Lilinette and Starrk, but there was two women who came from a higher society and didn't like being pushed around just because of their sex.

Yoruichi and her best friend Harribel were from someplace in Russia. Harribel was once a daughter of a governor who wanted her to bare an heir after her mother died and no one would marry him as he was a in dept man. Yoruichi was a countess' daughter who sold her body to gain power among the male population. Yoruichi got pregnant after one night and decided to run away with Harribel when she found out what her father was doing. They did escape, but Yoruichi lost the baby when they were caught and beaten for running.

Both women had fought on the streets until they were found by Grimmjow's father and Ulquiorra's aunt. Soon after they started to fight for respect among the men as they thought they were no good and worthless. For years they struggled to get where they were now and now they taught the girls how to fight and defend themselves as well as how to detect things like poison, weapons, and anything else tha they would need. Grimmjow was proud to call those two women gypsies as they had survived through hardships and fought to be recognized.

Grimmjow looked and saw the two women coming through the forest with Loly and Menoly's children. Both were voluptuousness and dark skinned, but they had subtle features like Yourichi had long dark violet hair and striking gold eyes while Harribel had short dark blonde hair that had two ponytails in the back and one that hung on the side of her face and had baby blue eyes.

Harribel didn't speak as much as Yoruichi did, but when she did everyone listened to her words. Yoruichi was listened to for her jokes, crude behavior at times and her advise. Both were like yin and yang at times, but when they fought they fought as one like a double edged sword.

"Hey Grimmjow!" Yoruichi said as they got closer. She had a bright smile on her face and her eyes were closed as she held Loly's baby girl that was named Momo. Harribel held Menoly's little boy that was called Hanataro, both were four and a half at the current moment. Momo looked just like Loly only she had dark brown eyes instead of Loly's violet ones. Hanataro didn't look like Menoly hair wise, but in bone structure and skin wise he looked like her. His eyes were a light gray-blue colour and his hair was a light black almost dark gray colour, but his skin was a light creamy tan colour like Meonly's.

Grimmjow looked at her and nodded his head as a greeting, not really in the mood to talk. Yoruichi saw this and headed off to give Hanataro and Momo to their mothers. Grimmjow seemed grateful to them and showed it with a light smile before he left the camp. He headed to a lake that wasn't that far from the camp yet only he knew about it, why that was he didn't know, but he had a strange suspicion that Ulquiorra knew and Grimmjow didn't care if he did know about it or not. His muscles were sore in a good way as he had a mock fight with Nnoitora after they got back to camp. He trekked through the forest for a bit at a sedated pace before he arrived at the lake.

He took his clothes off and walked into the water. He started to feel the dirt that was caked on his body from his sweat. He washed off the dirt and started to scrub the dirt from his hair. Diving under the water he scrubbed and racked his hands through his hair until he knew that he was clean and went up for air and to dry off. He looked like a feral predator that was looking for prey. Hair was dripping that laid against the sides of his face, water falling down his body and face, cyan eyes dilated from the change in lighting and his walking looked like a dangerous, but graceful and beautiful cougar.

After he got out of the water he dried his hair by shaking his hair like a dog then got dressed and went back to camp. He saw the moon shining down from the sky, how the time flew by he didn't know, but all he wanted to do now was go to sleep and dream. He stumbled through the forest with sleep hitting his mind and found his tent before crawling in and promptly going to sleep. The whole camp watched this then ignored him, knowing that something was up with their leader and knew that he didn't want to be bothered.

The women sat with the men and started joking and drinking, minding that the young girls and small boys got juice or water, and for the whole night they corresponded with each other like they had done in a long time. Yoruichi smiled at Harribel as they watched their students got along with the guys. They drank and loosened up while talking to Nnoitora and a weird bald guy by the name of Ikkaku that joined their miss fit family not that long ago.

"My best friend Yumichika smacked the man upside the head with a pot, the guy dropped like a pound of bricks" Ikkaku said to them, they laughed at the story. And then Yoruichi started telling a few stories from when she and Harribel lived on the streets and had to seduce people in order to steal and survive, most were funny which was the ones that she told, but more were darker then what she was telling. The other's didn't know, not unless they were Grimmjow or Ulquiorra, and it was gonna stay that way unless they liked you in a sort of manner.

Me: Hope you liked!