WARNINGS:

Yaoi (GrimmIchi)

Language

OOCness (due to the fact that I am a crappy writer and that this story has to progress)

'Thoughts'

"Talking"

Flashback

"Talking in a flashback"

"HOllOw IcHigo TaLking"


CHAPTER 9:

"Auughhhh! Damn! Where the hell are they?"

Ichigo was frustrated. He got started packing and left the house as soon as he made his decision. It was 6:47 now. They had been looking for the Vizards for an hour now and still, nothing.

Grimmjow was frustrated. He followed the strawberry blonde ('Not like I had a choice. If I stayed, Hyo-hime would've been playing dress-up every day') but he thought the boy knew where he was going.

He remembered the Vizards from one of Ichigo's talks. They are Shinigamis turned into Hollows, thus having both the powers of Shinigamis and Hollows. Basically, they were just like Ichigo and that's why they wanted him. They had approached him before but Ichigo revealed to the kitten that he was wary of them and did not want to join them. If he joined them, it would be admitting that he really was a Hollow.

However, Grimmjow saw remembered the most important part of the talk. They were Shinigamis and Hollows. Therefore, they had reiatsu. Therefore, Ichigo should just track their reiatsu.

'WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS IDIOT DOING? TRACK THEIR REIATSU ALREADY!' The kitten wanted to scream. Heck, the Vizards were throwing around their reiatsu so much that even he could feel it. Grimmjow tried to lead the boy in the right direction but Ichigo didn't notice.

'That's it. Enough of this bullshit.' The kitten jumped out of Ichigo's arms, making the orange-head stop.

"Hyo, what are you doing? We need to get to the Vizards! This is no time for you to be playing!"

The Espada narrowed his sapphire eyes. 'Damn son-of-a-bitch. Who's playin?'

Ichigo bent down, scooped up the kitten and began walking again. In the wrong direction.

'SON. OF. A. BITCH! Nononononono! WHERE THE FUCK DO YOU THINK YOU'RE GOING?'

Grimmjow squirmed and twisted but Ichigo just held on tighter. Grimmjow scowled and scratched the boy in the face again, finally gaining the boy's attention.

'Tch, damn moron. Is that the only way for you to learn?' He leapt out of the stunned Shinigami's arms and began leading him in the right direction.


"Well, well. Seems like you finally found our hiding spot... Ichigo," said the grinning blonde Vizard.

Grimmjow rolled his eyes. 'Yeah, I'll say.' It took about three hours of Grimmjow leading them before the strawberry blonde realized the increasing presence of reiatsu. From there on, he knew what to do but it was still a long trip. The Espada could not believe that even though they left at sunrise, they didn't find the abandoned warehouse until sunset.

Ichigo and Grimmjow looked up at the Vizards sitting on the various broken floors. Grimmjow only recognized the blonde one who had spoken, Hirako Shinji, from school. The two surveyed the rest. They didn't look particularly strong but Ichigo knew they were the only ones who could help him right now.

"That look on your face... seems like you've been searching for us all day, haven't ya?" Shinji grinned. "So are you determined now? On becoming one of us?"

The orange-head said nothing, glaring at the Vizard. The Espada watched the two. He knew Ichigo would never join them. 'Too loyal to his lame Shinigami friends.'

Shinji had continued speaking since Ichigo hadn't replied. "... Are you finally ready to join the crew?" He grinned smugly.

"HELL NO!"

"HAH?"

"Me becoming one of your flunkies? Gimme a frickin' break! The only thing I wanna do with you guys.. is use you." The orange-head sneered. Grimmjow smirked. There was the Ichigo he knew.

The Vizards narrowed their eyes at the rude Shinigami. "What's that?"


-Clang-

Zanpaktous slashed at each other. Ichigo flew at the Vizard only to have Hiyori, a small louder and much more obnoxious Vizard, dodge and retaliate.

The Vizards and Grimmjow watched the clash. Ichigo had provoked Shinji into battling him but the loud one got impatient and kicked out Shinji (literally) to take his place. Hiyori was not going easy on the Shinigami. She was already wearing her mask and had attacked the orange-head several times. Everyone could tell that Ichigo was going to lose if he didn't use his Hollow powers but they could also tell he was afraid to give up control to the Hollow he had been fighting for so long.

The Espada was somewhat disgusted. 'Come on, Shinigami. You can do better than that. I've fought you before, I would know. You're not all that but you can definitely kick her ass. Stop being a wimp and just use the Hollow power already!'

An eerie, high-pitched yell escaped the orange-head.

A Hollowfied Ichigo flew at the small Vizard girl. His hand latched onto her throat and slammed her into the floor. A sadistic grin stretched across the orange-head's face as Hiyori's eyes rolled back, losing its black and gold color.

Six figures flew to the Hollowfied orange-head, Zanpaktous held at his head and forcing him down.

Grimmjow looked at the scene before him. He knew based on reiatsu and experience that not one of the Vizards were a match for Ichigo but he realized that they had something that Ichigo had desperately been fighting for. Control.

'Looks like these losers actually can help the moron.' He didn't know it, and would never admit it, but the Espada was relieved.


AUTHOR'S NOTE:

So I don't know if anyone realized, but the dialogue so far in Chapter 1 with Aizen, Tousen, and Grimmjow and in here, Chapter 9 with Ichigo and the Vizards, are the exact dialogue used in the manga, verbatim. Well... it is according to . Yups! I did my research! I would've liked to continue on with their lines but I felt it would be tedious (sorry guys, I'm lazy) and not really important to this storyline so I just cut it off when I saw a chance to.