Thanksgiving was yesterday and i had alot of time today after stuffing myself with turkey to write so here is a new kinda short chapter.I still have not gotten to talk more about Renji and Matsumoto's relationship or get started on Orihime and Uryu's but i'll try and squeeze that in next time.
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An Old Flame
Ichigo and Rukia went down behind the school to try and see what business Grimmjow had with Nel but unfortunately by the time they made it there the both of them were already gone. Ichigo was worried about Nel and told the others the story of her life so they understood why.
"I think that basterd may haveeven been the one who gave her that big scar that goes down the middle of her face."
All of them were at the front gates of the school because Ichigo wanted to look everywhere for Nel but got tired on the way around the school. He received a lot of stares and rude gestures from people on the street but it didn't matter, the same thing happened all of his life because of his hair.
"Isn't it possible that she wanted to go with him Ichigo? After all you did say they had been um… lovers before she had left town … maybe they just wanted to talk, maybe?"
Orihime was sitting on the sidewalk nearest to Ichigo twisting a strand of her long hair. She had not seen him for a couple days and it was hard for her to stand the way people were always staring or pointing at her friend. She tried to shoot mean glares back at them but only made the expression of a blowfish.
"Orihime is right, Nelhas history with that guy and even though she has fixed her own life she might want to save his. It is a lost cause in my opinion but she seems overly optimistic enough to try. It's better if we just wait for her to come back on her own."
Renji didn't get a reply from Ichigo who still was holding a bit of a grudge against him. He just stood with his back turned to the school as the bell rang.
"You can't stay out here waiting for her to come back any more than you already have Ichigo we have to go. She will be ok she is a kick butt girl, she can take care of herself."
Renji took Ichigo by the shoulder and lead the group back to the school similarly to how he had lead them the day they all had found out Ichigo was pregnant and pulled him from the bathroom stale.
~Ichigo POV~
This class is one I have by myself if you don't count Byakua being here. He may feel I am not a bad impression on Rukia anymore but at school he is totally focused on school work, his friends and Rukia so he never speaks to me. In the hall he never even gives me or anyone else a sideways glance so it is the same for this period.
I sit in the back row luckily so I don't get as much trouble from the students the way I do in classes where I sit in the front. Today I was not paying any attention to what was being written on the board or what the pieces of paper being handed to me had to do with whatever we were supposed to be learning.
These days I have a lot of problems concentrating. I got over my anger with Yuzu and Karin and I am trying to do the same with Jintawho ran back into Urahara's shop when he saw me taking a walk. Instead of smacking him the way I wanted to I give the cold shoulder to Renjiwho doesn't really deserve it. Toshiro I haven't seen but as soon as I do I want to hear all the excuses he has for being my age and taking a young girl's virginity. So I should be able to concentrate but it just won't happen for me today.
"Kurosaki."
I looked up being pulled from my wondering thoughts by Byakuya's rough voice. Turns out we got partnered together for a project. Oh joy. We have to analyze a mammal or anything we want so we can study its body for anatomy class which has become my least favorite class of all. I hate it because the teacher who is a boney old bat of a woman always likes to use me as an example. I bet it is really unprofessional but she does it almost every day. So every day I have to slide my huge body from my tiny desk, walk all the way to the front of the class and stand there as she says things like;
"As you can see the third trimester is fast approaching meaning that labor and delivery should be taken into consideration."
She has me stand there center stage and tells everyone about my physical condition and has even pulled my shirt up once to demonstrate where the baby should have been positioned that month. I nearly choked her to death but then Matsumoto would have gotten involved and given us a strike.
The whole class was paired up and me and Byakuya asked to go to the library to do research and picked a pair of lounge chairs in the very back between the history textbooks and autobiography section to seat. It was silent with only the sound of typing or flipping of pages from one or two other students in our large library.
"I saw your new friend with Grimmjow this afternoon. And I don't think you really understand what type of girl she is. Her being doubled up with Grimm is bad news. You are my little sisters close friend so I thought I might as well try and help you."
He was using the same boring tone Uryū uses when he is being a brainy nerd that thinks he knows everything. So I rolled my eyes and started pretending to write notes from one of my other spiral notebooks which seemed to piss him off a bit. Byakuya is Mr. Popularity at school so I guess being ignored is not something he gets a lot.
"She is nothing but trouble and she has moved in across the hall from your apartment. I have seen her beat people mercilessly, I know her a lot better than you do Kurosaki and I am telling you the minute she even thinks you tried to screw her over she will fight back and do it in a dirty underhanded way. "
"Would you just start working already? I don't want to hear anything you have to say so you might as well help me get a good grade so your GPA won't suffer from whatever idea I come up with."
"You're such a dumbass moron Kurosaki. I don't know what Rukia sees in an idiot like you to be her friend, I know Nel seems like she has reformed herself from the gangbanger Espada she was not too long ago but she will go back."
I was getting fed up with all of Byakuya's crap. Sure I had only meet Nel last night and he must have known her back when she was bad but those are two completely different people as far as I am concerned. Nel has a certain way of acting and talking to me that makes all the stuff I have to deal with to not be so awful. Someone like her has qualities of Rukia and Orihime mixed together. Bossy and always right combined with innocent lovingness.
"I don't care about who she was Kuchiki. That person I never knew I only know the new Nel and I dough that after running away from Grimmjow she would be dumb enough to go crawling back on her hands and knees to him. So shut the hell up about the fact I don't know anything about her because I will admit I don't really do. I'm sticking with my gut feeling and believing her till she gives me some sort of reason not to."
I grabbed my school bag only to hear him under his breath say,
"Well you do have a lot of gut to go by after all."
Dammit why does everyone always have to mention my weight? I know I'm fat I don't need to be reminded of it all the dame time!
~At the Espada Hangout~
"Want a cigarette?" Grimm pulled a match from his back pocket and light the cigarettes that were hanging from his mouth then handed one to Nel as he heavily smoked his own.
He had watched Nel walk with Ichigo that morning to school. He had been watching daily what Ichigo had been doing without him noticing or if he did he never showed it. Today Grimmjow nearly choked on an energy drink he had been gulping when he saw the long legs and green hair he had been thinking about since she ran out on him.
The first person he had truly felt any type of affection for and the first person he trusted with his heart. That faithful day he had seen her through that jewelry store window was one of the most meaningful days of his life. He remembered how soft her skin had been as he took her hand and how she had been wearing kiwi flavored lip gloss when they kissed for the first time. Her lips looked amazing and lush that day. She was the bad girl he had been searching for that melted his heart and made him actually want to be a better person. Just for her.
But instead of getting better they both became more devious, you could almost say they were evil all they would need were the red devil horns. That is probably why she left but he could never get over her no matter how many other people he slept with or how much he drank. She was always on his mind twenty four hours a day seven days a week. Ichigo was the only lover he has had come close to how he felt about Nel but that thing… that baby growing in him was disgusting.
No one, absolutely no one was supposed to bear his children except for her and he didn't want anyone else to either. Ichigo was interesting and blunt about his feelings and a good guy but Nel was the only person meant for him.
"I thought you stopped smoking a long time ago?" she took the cigarette and inhaled deeply before letting the smoke out in perfect circle shaped puffs,"Oh well it doesn't matter. This is my first in two months."
They were sitting on a couple of milk crates outside the run down building the Espada called home. The bricks were crumbling and a pale red color from sun damage with hundreds of crows flying around the roof in an ominous fashion. It suited the people that lived in such a deserted place.
"Ya'know I never cleaned out your room. You could come back anytime-today- if you wanted to. I've missed you a lot; you didn't even give me a real goodbye."
He didn't look her in the face but put his arm around her small shoulders and she felt the familiar comfort of his muscular arm draped around her. Everything she had left behind was the same as she had remembered. Memories of all the kisses and adventures the two of them had shared came back and settled in her mind making the want of kissing the lips she had known so well and wanting to look in the ice blue eyes she loved to increase.
Then she remembered last night and the fun she had had with Ichigo and was reminded of why she had come here in the first place.
"That would be nice Grimmy but there is someone you should be with instead of me."She removed his arm and finished her cigarette."Ichigo, you should be with Ichigo the guy you had sex with and who is having your baby."
"Come on Nel don't bring shit like that up we were having a nice time like we use to." Leaning in for a kiss his breath felt hot on Nel's neck but she had to do what she had came for.
She took his face into one of the slender hands and looked at the face that was unchanged by time.
"No, Grimmjow you should do your best to talk with Ichigo. I may not know the whole story of what has been going on with this whole pregnancy but he needs you more than you know. He is lonely and afraid and he may have his friends but it just isn't enough so do me the favor of seeing him and being cool."
She stood up to leave then turned around "Pulse if you play nice with Ichi I'll play nice with you!" She winked one of her large green eyes flirtatiously and continued walking away.
"Ok now I have some incentiveve to go on and see him again .If he doesn't call Byakuya on me again that is. "
He flicked the cigarette ashes on the ground and started walking the long way to Ichigo's apartment. The more time he had to think about what to say the better and thinking of all the things Nel might do for him after this favor the faster his legs seemed to carry him.
