Sorry that this one took so long…I blame Ichigo.

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Vermilion High

Chapter 7

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"Hey, are you guys going to that Halloween Jam thing that the school is hosting this Saturday?" Renji asked from his seat at the lunch table.

Yumichika grinned. "Of course we are!" He nudged Ikkaku and Ikkaku mumbled something incoherent, poking his fork into the food he'd gotten.

Ichigo looked over to Grimmjow for a second, noticing that Grimmjow didn't even respond to the question. While Shuuhei and Renji were arguing over whether or not Shuuhei should even bother going, Ichigo leant over to his boyfriend.

"Grimmjow. Are you wanting to go?" He whispered. Grimmjow grinned, wrapping his arm around Ichigo's waist.

"Are you asking as a date?"

Ichigo blushed, scowling. "No! I was just wondering if you wanted to go to it. Besides…" He cupped a hand over Grimmjow's ear. "There'd be too many people to call it a date." He backed away, looking at his plate as he cleared his throat.

"So do you wanna go or not?"

Grimmjow leaned over and licked just under Ichigo's earlobe. Ichigo winced, gasping quietly.

"Nope, we've already got plans."

"Alright! Break it up you two!!" Soi-Fon yelled at them. At some point in their conversation she had come to stand right behind them. She had her hands on her hips, her two braids swinging behind her.

"We'll have no hanky panky in the cafeteria!"

She looked as if she was about to yell out something else but she saw a pair of boys making out next to the window and ran over there to tell them the same thing. Grimmjow snickered while Ichigo just stared wide-eyed at the spot that she had occupied.

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Ichigo stirred the udon in the pot, stretching a bit to see if the tomato sauce had come to a simmer yet. It had, so he turned off both flames and poured the noodles out into the streamer, putting them back into the pot before he added half a stick of butter and stirred. He had learned from Yuzu that if you added butter to the noodles, no matter what kind you're cooking, they would taste a lotbetter.

He was about to pour the sauce over it but stiffened as Grimmjow wrapped his arms around his thin waist. He finished pouring before looking over his shoulder at the teal-haired teen behind him.

"Dinner will be ready in a minute. It needs to cool."

Grimmjow nuzzled Ichigo's neck, muttering out, "I'm more interested in the chef than the food itself."

Ichigo gently grabbed onto Grimmjow's wrists and pulled them off of him before stepping over to the sink and rinsing out the saucepan.

"Sorry, but the chef isn't on tonight's menu." He turned the faucet off and checked the pot. "It's ready…"

Grimmjow, of course, wasn't paying attention. He just kept his eyes on Ichigo.

"How about tomorrow's menu?"

Ichigo looked at him weirdly. "Huh?" Grimmjow stepped in front of him and wrapped his arms around the smaller teen's waist.

"Will the chef be on tomorrow night's menu?"

Ichigo tried to push Grimmjow off, but the tan arms didn't budge. He sighed, glaring at him.

"Most likely the chef won't be on the menu for a long time. Now get off before dinner gets cold."

Grimmjow pouted slightly, taking Ichigo by surprise, before he got off and helped set the table. They both sat down and dug into their food. Ichigo finished first and looked over to Grimmjow.

"Hey, Grimmjow. Earlier, I didn't get to ask you…"

"About what?" Grimmjow didn't look up from his plate.

"What are the plans that we supposedly have for Halloween? You're not gonna make me dress up and go trick-or-treating, are you?"

Grimmjow swallowed his bite before covering his mouth with one hand and snickering rather loudly. "If you don't remember Ichi, we'd already done our costuming for the year. No, that wasn't what I was planning."

"Then what is it?"

"I'll tell you after I finish dinner."

Ichigo sighed heavily. "Fine…"

He started washing his dishes in the sink, scrubbing out the pot. He saw that his plate had a wad of sauce left on it and happily gathered it up on his finger before sucking it off and scrubbing the plate. Grimmjow walked up then and stood next to Ichigo, washing his dishes as well. They scrubbed in silence until the water was turned off.

Ichigo joined Grimmjow on the couch only a few minutes later, grabbing the remote out of Grimmjow's hand and turning the TV off before he settled into his spot. Grimmjow wrapped an arm around him and pulled him closer to where Ichigo was almost sitting in his lap, but wasn't.

"So are you gonna tell me or not?" Ichigo asked, frustrated.

"Are you wanting it to be a surprise?" Grimmjow smirked. Ichigo hit him in the shoulder.

"Why would I be asking if I did?! Idiot!"

"Okay, okay. Calm down, Ichi…"

Ichigo sighed, looking at Grimmjow expectantly. Grimmjow looked off to the wall behind the TV.

"I was planning on us just spending all night watching scary movies. Everyone else will be off at that school dance, and it is a school dance by the way, so we'd be all alone in the building." He looked back over to Ichigo and smiled softly. "What do ya think?"

"But, it wouldn't be that different than us just watching TV any other night, Grimmjow."

"Well…I was going to say that we could make it into a date kind of thing and make this place a bit more romantic…but then again-" He noticed that Ichigo had looked off to the side and stopped mid-sentence. "Ichi?"

"That…sounds nice…"

They stayed like that for a moment. Grimmjow, after he had gotten out of his Ichigo-just-did-something-incredibly-cute stupor, grinned. Ichigo looked back over to him.

"What'll we do to the dorm for this Saturday?"

"Oh, you know…candles, incense, pillows almost everywhere, we could move the furniture a bit…A little bit of this." He blew in Ichigo's ear. "A little bit of that." He started nibbling on the strawberry's earlobe, making Ichigo gasp softly. Grimmjow kissed the other teen's forehead then backed away.

"Ya know, couples' stuff."

Ichigo hid his face in Grimmjow's neck. "…okay…"

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Ikkaku ran up to Renji's side, looping an arm around the redhead's neck.

"So how come you ain't spending Halloween with Kuchiki-sensei? I thought you finally got him to go out with ya."

Renji pulled his backpack up his arm again after shoving Ikkaku off of him.

"He's chaperoning the dance."

"Oh! So that's why you're so excited about the thing and wanting us all to come, right?" Ikkaku grinned as he saw Renji blush slightly and hold onto his bag strap tighter.

"No. I just wanted to see how many people I know were actually gonna show."

"Yeah. Sure you were."

Ikkaku ran off before Renji could hit him in the stomach with his backpack.

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"Grimmjow. What scent do you like?"

"I doubt if they carry it…" Grimmjow said as he grabbed some sandalwood incense. He sniffed at them, crunched his nose up, and then put them back on the shelf.

"Tell me, I'll look." Ichigo said. He was already sifting through the candles across the isle. Grimmjow walked up behind him, looking at the shelf.

"I know that they don't carry it…"

Ichigo turned around, crossing his arms in front of him and glaring up at the teal-haired teen.

"Tell me already."

"Alright, alright. It's a certain type of strawberry…" Ichigo turned back to the shelf, reaching over towards the two different types of strawberry candles before Grimmjow could finish his sentence.

"…That comes from Karakura Town." He froze and looked over his shoulder at Grimmjow. The other teen was just grinning from ear to ear.

"I don't think they have that. Try these." He picked the two strawberry scents off the shelf and forcefully shoved them into Grimmjow's hands before walking all the way down to the other end of the isle and looking at the scents down there. A female clerk walked past him, spotting his blush and giggling to herself before turning around and standing next to him.

"Can I help you, sir?"

Ichigo jumped, looking next to him. The woman was slightly taller than him with long, wavy, strawberry-blonde hair that came almost to her waist. Her uniform, in his opinion, was probably not regulation. It was far too small and she had it unbuttoned to where it showed almost all of her breasts. The nametag on her blouse read Rangiku Matsumoto.

"Uhh…no thanks. I was just-" She grabbed onto his wrist, already dragging him down to a different isle.

"Don't be silly! Here at Sensual Desires our customer help is the best! We can find whatever you need!" She turned around and faced him, taking his other hand into hers. "Now, what is it that you were trying to find?"

Ichigo looked away from her smiling face, which by the way was a little too close to his, and saw something he probably shouldn't have seen until he was twenty. Sexual devices for women lined the walls. Dildos, gags, whips, vibrators, and more were up and down the isle on either side. His eyes widened then went back to the woman's face. She had an obvious twinkle in her eye.

She let go of his hands and dragged him by the collar down further into the isle. She looked from shelf to shelf before she found what she was looking for. Keeping a firm grip on his shirt, she grabbed up the best selling vibrator that the store sold.

It had attachments to it that only Satan could think up, and yet it was real. There were sleeves that could be put over it. There were sleeves that had bumps, sleeves that had ridges, sleeves that had tassels, and even sleeves that had different fabrics on the outside. It was definitely the vibrator from Hell…or maybe Heaven, who knows. But one thing Ichigo did know was that this woman had just taken it out of the box and was holding it in front of him.

"Try this one on for size!" She shoved it into his hands and for a moment he just stood there, holding onto it. Then it hit him. He was holding a vibrator!! He shoved it back into her hands quickly.

"I don't want it!!?" His sentence turned into a question at the end for some reason and she sensed a sale. She shoved it back into his hands.

"Oh, yes you do!" She sang out. She shoved it back to her.

"No. I don't!" He shoved it back.

"Yes. You do!" She shoved it back into his hands and he paused, only for a split second, before shoving it back into her hands.

"No!"

"Yes!" She shoved it back.

"No!"

"Yes!"

"No!"

"Yes!"

"No!"

"Yes!"

"Ichigo! Where did you…go?" Grimmjow walked into the isle, seeing what was happening in front of him. It didn't even cross his mind that the sale's clerk was trying to force Ichigo to by it. All he saw was his adorable Ichigo holding onto a vibrator.

He left the basket at the end of the isle, making his way over to the strawberry. Ichigo was too focused on getting the thing out of his hand that he didn't even notice Grimmjow behind him until the vibrator was gone. He opened his eyes, wondering when he closed them, and looked up to where it was dangling in front of his face.

"So you buy these things and don't even let me touch you?" Ichigo shuddered, recognizing the voice. The clerk, Rangiku, had already disappeared. Grimmjow leaned down, putting his mouth at Ichigo's ear. "You could've at least let me use it on you…"

Ichigo immediately flipped around, blushing like mad, and glaring at his boyfriend.

"I wasn't going to get that! I never even wanted to be in this isle!! This clerk dragged me down here and shoved that thing into my hands!!! Why would I even want to have one of those things?!!"

Rangiku popped her head out from the end of the isle. "Because your boyfriend doesn't satisfy your needs?"

Both of them turned to where she was but she was gone once again. Ichigo turned back to Grimmjow and the teal-haired teen was putting the vibrator back into the box, not even looking at Ichigo as he shelved it. Ichigo gulped down the lump in his throat as he followed Grimmjow to the front to pay for the candles and stuff that they had picked out before Ichigo had disappeared, more of which were from Grimmjow's selection.

Ichigo closed his door once he got into Grimmjow's black Jaguar and looked over to see Grimmjow staring at him. The teen reached his hand over and stroked Ichigo's cheek.

"Ichi…" He leaned across the console and Ichigo made a noise similar to a squeak and ducked his head slightly, making Grimmjow kiss his forehead instead of his lips.

"Sorry. After I had said that, I needed to calm myself down a bit…" Grimmjow smiled slightly, trying to look Ichigo in the eyes. Ichigo glanced at him, lowering his head a little more.

"Were you really that angry…?"

"Angry? No. I understand how that thing got into your hands, Ichi. It's just the thought that I put in my head was too…hot. I needed to calm myself down. No wonder you were so quiet. If you thought I was angry at you…well, duh."

"G-Grimmjow…you…PERVERT!!" Ichigo shoved the teal-haired teen off before punching him lightly in the arm. Grimmjow just laughed as he saw Ichigo's tinted cheeks before the strawberry hid his face by looking out the window away from Grimmjow. He smiled to himself. At least Grimmjow's being more of himself then he was only last week.

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Byakuya shoved Renji into the wall, picking the teen's leg up and hooking it around his waist. The booming music from the dance could be heard just outside the janitors' closet they were in. Byakuya moved his lips down to Renji's neck, biting hard at the skin there and making Renji moan so loudly that he had to cover his own mouth.

Renji made one comment about Byakuya dressing up as a 'sexy vampire' and Byakuya just snapped, dragging him away from the partying teens. Him biting the teen's neck that hard while wearing that particular costume was just too much.

Renji moaned again and the raven licked at the spot before he trailed his menstruations up to the teen's ear, sucking on the lobe. The redhead cupped his cheek and brought their mouths together again, tightening his hold on Byakuya's waist and crashing their groins together. Byakuya groaned loudly, backing away from Renji's mouth to look him in the eyes.

"You know that we can't just stay in here. Sooner or later someone will be looking for us."

Renji furrowed his brow, scowling slightly. "Why do you always do that?" Byakuya raised an eyebrow.

"Do what?"

"This. You're the one that starts these…shouldn't I be the one that tries to end them? I mean…isn't that how it's supposed to be? But no, you always go and do that. As soon as I want to keep going, you stop us and tell me a reason as to why we can't keep going…"

"Because most of the time we're in a situation where we could be caught any moment."

"Then why do you start them?" Renji lowered his leg from around Byakuya's waist. The raven sighed and wrapped his arms around the teen's waist, resting his chin on Renji's shoulder.

"I don't know. I just suddenly have the urge to…touch. And I need to satisfy that urge."

"So…what? I'm like a drug to you? When you need a fix, there I am?"

Byakuya chuckled, backed up, and kissed Renji briefly on the lips. When they separated, he was smiling.

"Yes. You're my drug. My very…" He ran his hands down Renji's sides to his hips. "Addictive…" He put his mouth back at the redhead's ear as he punctuated his word with grabbing the teen's ass. "Drug."

Renji shuddered with each slow, warm puff of air that ran across the bridge of his ear. He leant forward and ran his tongue along Byakuya's jaw.

"I don't want to keep stopping…Byakuya…" He breathed out.

A jolt ran down the raven's spine and he straightened, pushing Renji back into the wall and claiming his mouth once more. He moved his lips away, reluctantly, after a minute or so. Renji was panting hard, trying to regain his breath.

"The fact still remains that we can't go further than this here."

"Byakuya…the dance ends at eleven o'clock. Afterwards we could go to your place and-"

The man covered Renji's mouth with his hand, closing his eyes and shaking his head once.

"No, Renji…"

"But-" Renji stopped speaking after the raven opened his eyes.

"Don't interrupt."

"…"

Byakuya sighed. "Not tonight. If you want to just…wait, no. Nevermind. Just not tonight." He removed his hand and kissed Renji briefly. "In time, yes. But not tonight."

"What were you going to say just then? 'If I want to just'…what?"

"I was going to offer for you to spend the night, but I wouldn't be able to control myself. I know I wouldn't."

"But that's what I want…!" Renji covered his own mouth then, with both of his hands, and stared at Byakuya for a moment. He couldn't believe he had just said that.

Byakuya stared at him, only for a moment, before removing one of Renji's arms and latching his mouth onto the teen's neck once again. The man sucked at the hickey he had created only a few minutes earlier, making Renji moan. It was muffled by the redhead's hand, but Byakuya still heard it.

His hand reached down between them to grope the younger's crotch. Renji's eyes shot open and his knees buckled as a tremor ran through him. Was Byakuya seriously going to…?

Just as Byakuya was about to unzip Renji's pants, the door flew open. It was Jyuushirou Ukitake-sensei and Kyouraku Shunsui-sensei. Kyouraku stared for a moment before slowly closing the door.

"Sorry. We didn't realize that this closet was already in use…" Then the door flew open again with both of the men looking at them with wide eyes.

"Kuchiki-sensei?!!"

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Ichigo popped in the VHS tape and went to sit back between Grimmjow's legs, nuzzling himself there until he heard his boyfriend grunt slightly. He chuckled and reached for the bowl of popcorn. As soon as it was in his lap, Grimmjow wrapped his arms around Ichigo's waist and told Ichigo to feed him some. What he received wasn't popcorn, but an annoyed Ichigo saying, "Get it yourself."

Grimmjow reached for it, leaning forward only so that he could plant a small kiss under Ichigo's jaw, before backing up and eating his handful. Ichigo's slight blush didn't escape him.

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It was already past two in the morning when they finished watching Dracula 2000, Were-Ville, The Grudge, and House on Haunted Hill. Neither one of them had began to doze off though. Ichigo stayed still for a moment before taking a deep breath, then letting it go. It was now or never.

Ichigo turned around in Grimmjow's lap, straddling him like he had only a week before, and cupped the older teen's face.

"Happy Halloween…" He breathed out before he connected their lips. He separated only a second after to see if Grimmjow was okay, not in shock, but was quickly pulled back by the other's hands. The stayed connected longer this time. To Ichigo, it felt like hours. Even if Grimmjow wasn't deepening it, he could stay like that until sunrise. Grimmjow pushed Ichigo back and smiled.

"Finally…"

He pulled Ichigo back down, lowering his arms to the smaller teen's waist as Ichigo wrapped his around Grimmjow's neck. Grimmjow licked at Ichigo's bottom lip and Ichigo happily complied, opening his mouth with a whimper as his boyfriend's tongue entered. Grimmjow ran his tongue against Ichigo's own and glided across the strawberry's cheeks and gums before lining out the inside of his lips. He went back to slide against Ichigo's tongue but teen pulled away.

"Grimmjow. Don't…don't be so gentle…I'm not a girl."

Grimmjow looked at him confused for a second before thrusting his hips up. "I know that much, Ichi." He chuckled. But Ichigo didn't laugh. He gasped when Grimmjow did that, but he wasn't smiling. Grimmjow stopped and stroked Ichigo's cheek.

"What do you want me to do? This is your first real relationship, right? I don't wanna rush you or anything."

Ichigo gulped down the lump in his throat then hid his face in Grimmjow's neck.

"Grimmjow…I was awake…"

"Huh?"

"Before we actually got together…you used to do things to me before you woke me up, right?"

Grimmjow panicked for a second before he noticed Ichigo trembling a bit and tightening his arms slightly. He simply nodded.

"I thought that if we got together, you'd keep doing that past the point where I 'woke up'. But…you just started being so gentle out of nowhere. I didn't know what I was supposed to do with that."

Grimmjow sighed, pushing Ichigo back a bit. The teen was blushing madly and averting his eyes. Grimmjow put a finger under his chin and lifted his face to his before connecting their lips, but this time with all the roughness that Ichigo was asking for. The smaller teen moaned, making Grimmjow back up a bit and smirk.

"You really like that, huh?"

His response was Ichigo attacking his lips, wanting more. Grimmjow ran his hands up and down Ichigo's sides before supporting his back and laying him down on the millions of pillows they had laid out, crawling over him. He moved his lips to Ichigo's neck, suckling, nibbling, and licking at one spot before moving up to his ear.

"If I go to far, stop me." He whispered before biting down on the strawberry's earlobe. Ichigo whimpered, letting out a breathy 'yes' before bringing Grimmjow's mouth back to his.

Grimmjow pried Ichigo's lips open before sucking on the teen's tongue and pushing against it, then pulling it, then pushing it again. He stopped and pressed Ichigo's bottom lip between his tongue and top row of teeth. Ichigo couldn't stop the small mewls that came from him. Grimmjow's way of kissing could easily become addicting for him.

Grimmjow separated and stared at Ichigo, catching his breath. Ichigo's eyes were still closed, his breath coming out in short, frantic puffs. His cheeks were flushed and his bangs were sticking to his forehead with a coat of sweat.

Grimmjow waited for him to open his eyes before kissing him again. But once he did all he could do was stare. Ichigo's eyes were filled with lust, yes, but the kid obviously was mentally debating with himself. Grimmjow kissed his forehead and sat up, helping Ichigo sit up as well.

"You okay?"

"I'm fine…why'd you stop? I didn't tell you to." Ichigo connected their lips again and Grimmjow held back some, but still put enough of himself into it that it left Ichigo breathless afterwards.

"Because we still have one more movie to watch, and…" He kissed Ichigo briefly on the lips before smirking. "I'm not sure if you would've ever told me to stop. So I stopped on my own."

"Why? If I wanted to keep going, then why stop?"

"Because I love you and I know that you're not ready yet." Grimmjow's smirk grew into a full out grin as Ichigo's face lit up red and he hit him in the shoulder.

"Why do you always have to say that?!"

"Why not? It's true. I love you." He went in for another short kiss but Ichigo backed away, standing up so that he could pop in the last movie they had rented. He sat down next to Grimmjow and leaned his head on the teal-haired teen's shoulder, the one he had hit. Grimmjow just chuckled and wrapped his arm around Ichigo's shoulder.

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"Okay…let me get this straight. You two are dating, right?"

"Yes." Byakuya said as Renji just nodded. The poor teen was blushing so badly that Byakuya feared he might come down with a fever soon enough. Kyouraku questioning them, on top of catching them, wasn't helping at all.

"And Renji asked you out. Not the other way around. Correct?" This one was directed strictly at Byakuya. The raven sighed.

"Why are we going through this yet again? We've done this about three times now."

Kyouraku smiled.

"Because each time I ask the question, little Renji over there has such a cute reaction." He said, melodically. Byakuya's eyes lit up and before he stood up and punched the other man sitting across from him, he took Renji's hand and walked towards the door. Renji followed obediently, wondering why Byakuya was so angry. Ukitake called from behind the pair before they opened the door.

"Don't worry, Kuchiki-sensei. Abarai-kun. We won't tell the board. Just make sure to be more precautious."

Renji looked back and smiled, giving his gratitude before Byakuya pulled him out the door. They walked hand in hand until they reached the end of the hallway. Students, and teachers, were flooding out the front doors. Byakuya took Renji's hand again before turning around. He headed towards the back entrance. He had parked his car there in the administrative lot.

He threw Renji into the passenger's seat before walking around to his end and slamming his door shut. Renji looked over at him, warily.

"Byakuya…"

His sentence was cut short as Byakuya dragged him over the gap between their seats and into his arms, holding him tightly.

"Thank God…they're not going to tell the board members."

Renji looked up, only for a second, before Byakuya connected their lips. It wasn't at all like the kisses they'd had before. Byakuya didn't deepen it, just kept their lips together as he moved slowly against Renji's mouth. Renji whimpered from the sudden mildness of the kiss. He brought his arms to wrap around the man's neck and the other separated, burying his face in the younger's neck.

"With all of that questioning I thought that, for sure, they would keep us apart…"

Renji felt a few drips of cold water on his neck and he closed his eyes, nuzzling into Byakuya's shoulder. He'd be stuck like that for a while. But it was perfectly with him.

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Okay…I'm debating with myself on whether or not I should make the next chapter examination week or Thanksgiving…most likely it'll be the exam one…but forget about that! Let's talk about this chapter!!!!

THEY KISSED!!!! FINALLY!! And it was a good kiss. Yes? *grinning wide*

We got a bit of Byakuya and Renji action in this chapter as well…so 'yeah' for that. (wow, I'm like saying this all monotonously…wtf.)

I'm so sorry for not getting a new chapter to you guys in such a long time!! I was like…on a submitting frenzy and now it's been like…what? A week, maybe? I feel so BAD!!! I got into one of my cleaning frenzies and when that happens I scrub everything and move my furniture around. I still have organizing to do!! *pulls hair* Gyahh!!

I have a new story out and I'd be UBER-PLEASED if you guys read it!! It's called Crossing Over. And…surprisingly enough…it's not yaoi. I know what you're thinking. "Not a yaoi? It's fraud!!" But yes, I'm writing a Heterosexual story. It's pretty much my OC and her story. But it's rated M for later chapters…because I can't resist writing smut in almost everything I set out to write. ^^; So please read~ ^-^

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