Chapter 9

Fight for the Girl

"What's the matter Ulquiorra?" Renji taunted, "Something the matter?"

Ulquiorra glared at the Shimigami hoping to drill holes in him if possible. Renji smirked at the hatred that rolled off Ulquiorra's glare.

"What's with that glare? Seems to me that it has a fresh batch of hate added to it; why exactly would that be?" Renji asked stirring the fire under Ulquiorra.

"You took her," Ulquiorra growled through grit teeth.

"Huh?" Renji was utterly confused at this statement.

"You took her from me," Ulquiorra repeated, his glare intensifying.

Renji raised one tattooed eyebrow at the smaller male, "I'm confused. Who are you referring to?"

"Don't act dumb, you know who I'm talking about. The one you've been hanging around with for the past month nonstop. You took her from me."

The realization of who Ulquiorra was referring to crashed upon Renji; who smirked deciding he would milk the situation for all it was worth to provoke Ulquiorra to the full extent possible.

"Oh you mean Izumi. I didn't know she belonged to anyone. She's carrying my child you know," Renji smarted off, smirk increasing at the expression on Ulquiorra's face.

~TI~

Izumi sneezed as she put away one of her paintings.

"Are you coming down with a cold," Rukia asked concern floating off her words.

"No, I think someone's talking about me is all," Izumi stated simply.

Footsteps echoed off the walls as someone rushed down the hall heading towards the door on the end.

"Izumi!" shouted one of the lower Shimigami members.

"Nani?" Izumi asked.

"You've gotta come quick. Renji and Ulquiorra are fighting out front," the girl wailed.

Both Izumi and Rukia looked at each other, they shared a glance of understanding that this fight would turn deadly if it wasn't resolved quickly. The two dashed out of their room, rushing passed poor bystanders that were being plowed over as they advanced down the hall.

Thoughts ran rapid through Izumi's mind as she ran to Renji's aid.

~TU~

"I'm going to kill you," Ulquiorra threatened, his tone dropping extremely.

People that were standing on the sidelines of the battle cowered for Renji, but Renji stood strong and just smirked at the agitated male.

"Try it," he dared.

Ulquiorra was just about to do that when a scalp of blonde hair came into view right in between the two males.

"What the fuck is going on," Izumi demanded to know.

Neither of the males replied too ashamed to, or didn't quite know how to explain it.

Izumi turned to Ulquiorra and glared.

"What is the meaning of this?" she demanded again.

"It's his fault," was all Ulquiorra said.

Izumi gave a confused look and Renji decided that then would be a good idea to clear a few things but avoiding the subject of them dating and everything that went along with them having a relationship deeper than that even.

"Well he blames me for stealing you away from him," Renji stated.

Izumi rounded on Ulquiorra in a second.

"Stole me away? You're the one that dumped me on the floor, remember? You're the one that decided it would be fun to play with my emotions and make me believe that I had some chance of you liking me and then you broke my heart. You are the only one to blame here…." Izumi continued to shout insults and other things at the male that were incoherent with the man topic of the fight completely.

"Calm down, you'll hurt the baby," Ulquiorra found himself saying in the middle of Izumi's rant.

"Baby?" Izumi thought for a moment before rounding on Renji instead, "What the fuck did you tell him?"

The glare Renji received from the pissed female was far more frightening than the one he received from Ulquiorra. Renji found himself taking steps backwards as Izumi ripped him a new one.

Ichigo was rolling on the ground at the sight of his friend being screamed at by the smaller female. Rukia was shocked at how stupid Renji could be at that moment and at how pissed Izumi had become. Nnaitra was dying of laughter at the sight of both Ulquiorra and Renji being screamed out. Szeyal's eyes were bugging out at the events and Grimmjaw was rolling with laugher at the moment almost to the point of not being able to breathe.

Once Izumi had completely broke Renji down she turned her anger back at Ulquiorra. She continued to scream and yell at the male. Ulquiorra just started to smile as Izumi continued to scream at him. Something in his brain had slipped or something to be enjoying being yelled at, but after being completely ignored by the female for a month being screamed at felt really nice.

~TI~

Izumi wasn't expecting it when an arm wrapped around her waist and pulled her closer, nor the lips that clasped over hers causing her to fall silent. Her eyes fluttered closed and she returned the kiss with full force.

Ichigo's and Renji's eyes bugged at from shock and Rukia was doing a dance of victory. Szayel soon joined Rukia in that victory dance while Grimmjaw's jaw had dropped to the ground at the shock of Ulquiorra kissing someone let alone the fact that he was kissing a Shimigami. Nnaitra was boiling with anger at his superior.

Ulquiorra pulled away from the kiss and just gazed in Izumi's blue/green orbs. He smiled a soft smile at her and Izumi couldn't help but smile back.

"How could you?" bellowed Nnaitra.

His anger getting the better of him, he charged at Ulquiorra pushing Izumi out of his way. The force of his push causing Izumi to topple to the ground; pain erupted from her wrists as she tried to break her fall.

A flash of a new emotion crossed Ulquiorra's eyes before he had Nnaitra pinned to the ground his arm twisted behind his back almost to the point of breaking it. Nnaitra whimpered in pain.

During the rapid movements something fell from Ulquiorra's jacket pocket right next to Izumi. Izumi picked it up and gasped. She was looking at a perfect replica of herself.

Ulquiorra was too busy hurting Nnaitra and whispering threats in his ear to notice that Izumi had found his secret drawing that he always carried on him since meeting the girl and for the past month was his form of sanctuary. He kept it close to him at all times; it was the only thing that allowed him to be able to sleep for the past month.

When Ulquiorra finally noticed what exact Izumi was holding he dropped Nnaitra's arm in an instant. Heat rushed to his cheeks in embarrassment of being found out.

"Ulquiorra, why?" Izumi asked still staring at the flawless drawing.

"Because I really care for you," Ulquiorra answered looking at the ground expecting to be smacked in the face or something along those lines.

But instead of that Izumi jumped on him, her arms wrapping around his neck and legs wrapping around his waist. Ulquiorra's quick reflexes allowed him to catch Izumi and balance himself out to not fall backwards from the force of the jump. Izumi's lips descended upon his in an amazing kiss.

"I love you too," she stated with a smile.

Ulquiorra smiled too enjoying holding her in his arms for real this time.

Ichigo, Renji, and Grimmjaw were dumb founded at the sight. Szayel and Rukia shook hands to a new alliance of the two sides of friends and Nnaitra mumbled to himself still lying face down in the dirt not feeling the strength to stand yet. The two groups lived in peace from that day forth after some convincing of their superiors of course.