Chapter 6
Chapter 6
It was pouring in Karakura Town and Ichigo stayed in his room even though it was a Sunday. Grimmjow had not looked for him for nearly two weeks after their first make-out session and he was very bothered by that.
The heavy rain did not help lift the orange head's spirit up at all.
'I wonder what Grimmjow is doing… That bastard hasn't come to look for me at all! I wonder if I can really trust his words… Damn! He's making me all moody. Maybe I should've gone to Keigo's house to play Playstation. Thrashing that idiot probably could entertain me for awhile…' Ichigo thought as he stared out of his room's window, watching the raindrops hit the windowpane.
Just then, Ichigo noticed a certain someone walking back and forth in front of his house. Looking closely, that someone was teal-haired, wearing a familiar white coat with the sleeves rolled up to his elbows, stuck his hands into his hakama with an annoyed look on his face.
'GRIMMJOW!' Ichigo recognized the suspicious character and used the shinigami badge to get out of his body.
He opened his window, ignoring the drops of rain entering his room, and jumped out to meet his Grimmjow, leaving his soul-less body lying on his bed.
Ichigo came up from behind Grimmjow and kicked him in his ass, causing the latter to fall on his face. Grimmjow's face was dirtied with mud and his lips bruised. Annoyed, he just let the rain washed off the mud on his face, mixed with blood from the cut on his lower lip.
Grimmjow was just about to curse whoever kicked him but silenced himself immediately when he saw the orange head. Instead of greeting Ichigo, Grimmjow acted like he did not see him and turned around, walking away and pissing Ichigo off as a result.
"Grimmjow!" Ichigo shouted.
The teal-haired Arrancar stopped in his steps. Ichigo ran up to him and punched Grimmjow without holding back his strength. He was really unaccustomed to see such a down-spirited Grimmjow and thought beating the hell out of him would get the latter to return to his normal self.
Ichigo kept punching and kicking Grimmjow until he started coughing out blood. By then, the Arrancar's pure white coat was soiled and soaked with rain and blood; his body was bruised badly and his right cheek was slightly swollen.
Ichigo did not understand what had happened to Grimmjow to make the latter so depressed and unresponsive.
"Grimm, what happened? Did I do anything to upset you this much? Please tell me or I'll never know…" Ichigo pleaded with his lover.
Grimmjow's heart ached when he saw Ichigo's worried face.
'Damn! I'm a bastard who is not worthy of your feelings… Stop showering so much of your concern on me!' Grimmjow screamed loudly in his own head but he could never tell that straight to the orange-head.
-Flashback-
The door flung open and Gin, with his usual wide smile on his face but his reiatsu abnormally high, came stomping into Grimmjow's room when Grimmjow was ahout to service Aizen. The ex-Third Squad captain then pulled Aizen roughly off Grimmjow's bed and gave him a violent push to get him out of the room before dragging him off to somewhere else.
Grimmjow was shocked and had no idea what had just happened but he was thankful that he did not need to do Aizen at all. He knew he must have looked damn pathetic then. Putting that aside, he remembered Ichi and his sense of guilt increased since after being violated by Ulquiorra…
And the next thing he knew when he stopped blanking out, he had once again slipped into the human world again. He had not idea what his purpose of being there was. Should he tell Ichigo everything and apologise to him? But will Ichigo be able to forgive him? Or should he act like he had not done anything wrong and just move on?
Even after debating for so long, he could not reached a decision. At the very least though, he had decided that the last option was a no-go.
-End of Flasback-
"Grimmjow, face me!" Ichigo suddenly ordered the teal head.
As soon as Grimmjow turned around, Ichigo's palm met his cheek, creating a loud ringing sound in his ears. Grimmjow's eyes widened.
"What the hell are y–" Grimmjow for the first time in a long while, reacted but was given another tight slap on his other cheek.
"WHAT'S THAT FOR?!" Grimmjow's temper flared as he unconsciously rubbed where his orange head had hit, feeling that part of his cheeks burning up.
"Hah! That felt better. You cheated on me, didn't you? It's written all over your face, Grimm!" Ichigo smiled at his stunned boyfriend.
"Do you see it?" Ichigo took out a small mirror and placed it right in front of Grimmjow, reflecting part of the teal head's face.
Grimmjow softly pushed Ichigo's hand away. He did not want to see his weak and ugly self. He squatted down and grabbed his hair in frustration, growling slightly.
"So what would you have me do? I'm really sorry for what I did but trust me, Ichi… I did not cheat on you because I wanted to! I was being forced to!" Grimmjow cried out.
He really had no directions of where to go, what to do as his heart and mind were filled with guilt towards his Ichi. Since he was an amateur when it comes to relationships, he had no idea how to go on from here.
Just then, Ichigo ruffled his hair and scolded him, "BAKA!"
"I don't need you to tell me what you've done but what punishment should I give you? Hmmm…" Ichigo pretended to be deep in thoughts.
"You can have me do anything you like as long as you forgive me…" Grimmjow was desperate to earn his Ichi's trust back.
"Anything?"
"ANYTHING!"
"Then be my slave for one whole day!" Ichigo replied, beaming.
The order came to Grimmjow as an annoyance and he frowned slightly.
'Slave? Me, Grimmjow Jeagerjaques, an honourable SEXTA ESPADA becoming a SLAVE for a human being?! A shinigami no less!?' Grimmjow was battling it out in his own mind.
"Fine. I'll do whatever you want me to. Order me as you like. I promise you that I'll never escape or fight back." Grimmjow agreed unwillingly.
Although Ichigo was a human, a shinigami, Grimmjow loved him all the more. Thus, in order to win back his favourite Ichi's trust and love, Grimmjow would be more than willing to be the orange head's slave.
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"Come with me! There's something I've longed to do!" The orange head held the teal head's hand and made a run for it.
Grimmjow, who was still grumbling about his "punishment", nearly fell on his face when the orange head suddenly pulled him forward. What is it that Ichi wants me to do and just where the hell is he bringing me?
After running for aproximately ten minutes, Ichigo stopped abruptly and pressed Grimmjow's head hard, forcing the latter to kneel on the ground.
"Wh- "
"Shhh! Keep quiet! I'm just gonna check if the place is empty. Stay here until then, alright?" Ichigo whispered and sneaked into the small house.
"GRIMM! All's clear! Come on in!" The Sexta Espada heard his lover and came from behind the wall he was forced to hide. He looked at the small traditional house and a signboard caught his attention.
Urahara Shop. Huh? My lover is a thief-wannabe? Stealing is what he has been longing to do?!
"Grimm! Hurry up and come in! An old man walks faster than you, ya know!" Ichi called out again from inside the suspicious-looking shop.
Grimmjow followed the orange head's voice and found a ladder leading to an underground space. When he was halfway down the ladder, a red flash zoomed across him, cutting the ladder into two and Grimmjow fell onto the ground with a loud thud.
Next second, he was pinned down by Ichigo, who was holding his long black sword against the Sexta Espada's throat.
"Finally getting serious huh..." Grimmjow smirked as he came face to face with the familiar white mask with black stripes.
"I'm so gonna kick your ass, Sexta Espada Grimmjow Jeagerjaques! I'll let you off the hook once I've killed you," Ichigo smirked as he announced Grimm's real punishment in his other voice.