Hey guys, a shorter chapter, but I wanted to get this bit done and make a little progress, so here you are! I hope you enjoy it, and thank you again for all the lovely comments and follows!

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Grimmjow, this time, had only been out for a few seconds. He woke up to find 'The shinigami' standing above him, staring directly down at him, her eyes narrowed as her face came into focus. His blood began to boil at the sight

"WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT FOR?"

He launched himself onto his hands and flipped onto his feet and stood directly in front of her, one hand in his pocket as he bore down on her. The height distance was uncomfortably high for Rukia, still, she held his stare

"Not my fault you have a weak skull"

He stepped further into the gap between them, arms crossing this time, his face turning into a menacing glower. Rukia lifted her chin to keep his eyes, and crossed her arms also, his glare turned sour

"You're one irritating little fuck, you know?"

"Say's the hollow"

"OI!"

His arm flung out and his hand gripped her shoulder roughly

"I don't care whether you're a Shinigami, Hollow, Quincy, Human - be whatever the fuck you want, but don't you dare look down on me like I'm something lower than you." His voice had turned menacing, malice dripping with each new word. Rukia, however, was having none of it. She grasped his hand and flung it from her shoulder, standing straight on her toes to close the gap between their eyes

"You have yet to even use my name" Her eyes narrowed

"I called you Kuchiki, didn't I?"

"I am not going to be determined by my last name, Grimmjow. If you want me to consider you as an equal, I can only request you give me the same courtesy"

"You're not my fucking equal"

"Then you are not mine, hollow."

The tension between the two was tangible. Urahara flicked his eyes to Yoruichi, who in turn was watching them with complete intensity, her hands twitching at every exchange between the two

'She's waiting for them to strike, this is not good'

He gave a sigh, and flicked his fan to his face, plastering on a grin

"Hey, hey, calm down now you two; we wouldn't want anything to get serious, would we?"

Their eyes flicked to him at the exact same moment, a sweat drop appeared on his face

'This is a little creepy'

As Grimmjow and Rukia watched Urahara, they both noticed his hand was hovering perilously close to the split in the cane for his zanpakuto. He appeared to be holding his usual, creepy grin-behind-the-fan expression, but Rukia noticed his eyes appeared different, almost

'Deader?'

'I sense his reiatsu changing, be careful, little one'

Rukia looked intensely at the man, who was regarding the two with such an expression and her stomach began to churn.

'I don't like this'

She flicked her eyes to Grimmjow to see if he'd noticed any change, but the Espada just stared angrily at the shopkeeper

"Shut up sandals, this has nothing to fucking do with you!"

Rukia flicked her eyes quickly back to Urahara, and noticed the tiniest change flicker in his eyes as he flicked his own to Grimmjow. Suddenly the feeling in her stomach sky-rocketed, and the shopkeeper disappeared, dust exploded from the place he'd been only nano-seconds before

'Shit, Grimmjow!'

Rukia felt an insane Reiatsu appear head directly in front of Grimmjow, and in a split second yanked his arm and shoved him behind her just as the face of Urahara Kiskue appeared directly in front of her. The shopkeeper flicked his fan in front of his face, and his eyes crinkled in what looked to Rukia, like a grin. But his eyes were boring directly into hers

"That was an odd thing to do, Kuchiki-san"

Rukia only glared back at him her eyes locking with his

"I don't like to see my comrades attacked in front of me"

Urahara must've grinned behind his fan again

"Oh you don't think I'd attack young Grimmjow-kun here would you?" His eyes danced with mirth, he didn't often get challenged (Well, by people who weren't idiots)

"You tell me"

Suddenly she felt a grip on her shoulder, and her body pushed aside as Grimmjow launched himself in front of her

"WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT FOR?!"

"You were about to get annihilated by that man in front of you" Rukia said, her eyes locking dead onto his. Grimmjow, however, obviously had the brains of a gnat

"LIKE I'D GET KILLED BY HIM! DON'T YOU DARE FUCKING DO THAT AGAIN!" he roared at her

Rukia snapped

"YOU WOULDN'T GET KILLED BY HIM, ARE YOU COMPLETELY INSANE?! YOU STUPID FOOL! THIS IS THE MAN WHO TOOK DOWN AIZEN, AIZEN WITHOUT EVEN RELEASING HIS SHIKAI! You complete and utter MORON!" Rukia shook her head in disbelief, incredulity her expression. She started to walk around him

"I can't believe you've got me working with such a stupid man, Urahara." She said, walking to the shopkeeper.

"I request to work with someone less . . .

Grimmjow turned and shot a cero at the ground in anger

of a twat."

Rukia flicked her eyes to the shopkeeper, who'd appeared to have lost the scary reiatsu and was fully grinning behind his fan, mirth in his eyes.

"I'm sorry Kuchiki-san, he was the only one willing to work with you." He said matter-of-factly

Rukia was taken aback

"What do you mean?!"

"None of the other hollows much fancied working with a small and relatively weak Shinigami" he grinned

'Well, I never asked, but I can imagine the response' he shivered. Rukia however, seemed to be rather offended, her eyes bulging, and her hands clenched in fists at her sides.

'Those . . . those . . . imbeciles!'

'Well they are hollows little one . . .'

She began to shake in frustration, before a hand grasped her shoulder, again.

'I swear if he makes another stupid comment, I am going to bloody castr-'

"You're stuck with me, shithead" His demeanour seemed to have calmed, and he even appeared to grin a little

Rukia's eye twitched

"One day . . ." She murmured, brushing his hand off her shoulder and turned to walk away from him

"Heh! You'll be swooning over me, eventually, Kuchiki!" He grinned

"THAT'S IT!"

Rukia ran at the hollow, all Kuchiki-lessons lost as she let out a strangled war-cry and punched him square in the stomach. Right through his hole.

"Heh, that tickles" He grinned down at her, mirth and arrogance swimming through his eyes as Rukia looked up, face full of pure frustration.

'THAT'S ABSOLUTELY IT!'

A Surge of reiatsu exploded from the small Shinigami, and Grimmjow was sent flying across the arena. Grumbling he quickly got up and looked to the Shinigami, now encased in a violent reiatsu, and staring directly at him.

She disappeared.

"Shi-BOOOM

Rukia found the Espada running to her left and shunpoed towards him, landing another hit with her leg. She could feel the reiatsu swirl in her foot as she swung it down, and amplified it on contact.

'Result'

The ground exploded on contact with her foot, but unfortunately Grimmjow had managed to dodger her. She quickly scanned the area, but couldn't sense him due to her own reiatsu, and the dust from her kicks was clouding her vision.

Urahara and Yoruichi looked on, Yoruichi grinning

"Looks like she's finally unlocking the techniques of shunpo" Urahara stated, Yoruichi grinned mischeviously

"She's starting to grasp it, finally"

Urahara scoured the area and found a surge of reiatsu in the corner of the arena

"Oh-ho-ho. Looks like she's upped the game!" He mused, as yoruichis grin vanished, noticing the same.

'I am not losing this bet to Kisuke, come-on Kuchiki!'

The dust began to clear in front of Rukia, and she squinted, seeing a flash of blue in the distance. She crouched slightly, ready to explode into shunpo, but the figure came into clear focus. Stood, in front of her, was a resurrected Grimmjow, his eyes serious and boring into hers

"Let's see you deal with this, Kuchiki."

Rukia blinked for a moment, before further crouching, ready-to explode

"I'm not losing to Sonic-the-bloody-hedgehog"

She heard a mirthful laugh in the distance . . .


And that's it! Let me know what you think, and thanks for reading! :D