Holy Balls! I'm back! Two months later, and finally there will be updates again! Yay! Just to let you all know, I left two months ago for bootcamp actually, and now, since April 10th, I am a Sailor! Yay! I'm at my "A" School now, which is basically college, so I'm still not home, but I at least have access to internet again!
It's gonna be a little difficult to get back into writing after so long, but bear with me please, and enjoy this new chapter! Keep in mind that I wrote 80% of this before I left, and I also wrote up a future chapter (probably one or two chapters ahead of this one) while I was "incarcerated" XD.
Grimm found himself waking early the next day, and did not know why. He laid there, staring at the ceiling in the dark. After many minutes of staring passed he sat up and looked to his other bed mates with a smile. Ulquiorra and his mother were facing each other, their faces close enough that they could kiss and their bodies curled tightly around Pantera. The kit whimpered, his face scrunching up as if experiencing something less than pleasing and both mothers came to his rescue; wrapping their arms around him and curling closer. Grimm smiled at the cute scene.
With a yawn and a head scratch he gently threw his blankets off of his lap and scooted off his bed with nary a jostle to the others. After escaping the bedroom, he headed to the kitchen, intent on planning out breakfast for later.
Hours passed by and he heard someone shuffle into the kitchen behind him.
"... what are you making?"
Grimm turned and smiled at his bleary-eyed mate. "I was going to make pancakes, but I, for some reason, decided to make sugar cookies instead." He pulled a towel off of a plate sitting on the counter nearby. "Here's the first batch, want one?"
Ulquiorra walked over and plucked a lopsided cookie from the plate. He took a bite and sighed. "It's good."
The neko moved to walk away, but the bluenet grabbed him around his slim waist. He tugged him close and captured Ulqui's lips in a kiss. He moaned as the taste of the sweet cookie and Ulqui's natural flavor with hints of morning mouth touched his tongue. Ulqui hugged the human back, around his neck and purred as his large hands dropped lower to caress his buttocks. He squeezed and kneaded the soft mounds through the fabric of Ulqui's night pants.
He broke the heated kiss and when his blue eyes fluttered open he blushed at the sight of Sulalita timidly peeking around the corner at them. She realized she'd been noticed and revealed herself.
"Now I'm even more jealous," she murmured. "Vega and I haven't kissed like that in years..."
Ulqui turned to face his mother. "You should change that."
"I'll try," she said, smiling at them both. Her green eyes locked onto the plate of sweets. "What are those?"
"Cookies," Grimmjow told her. At his gesture she wandered over and took one. He laughed when her face brightened after one bite. "You like it?"
Sulalita nodded blissfully.
"I made a lot, so I'll send you home with some."
"Ah! Dhanyavada, narya jamatr! You're too sweet to me!"
Grimm smirked and rubbed the back of his neck. "It's nothing really."
"Oh but it is. I always thought humans were scary and cruel, but you're so kind to me and my putra. It means more than you think... I hope all humans I meet are as wonderful as you." She cozied up to him and stood on her toes to press a kiss to his cheek.
He gave her a one-armed hug.
Pantera appeared in the entry way. "Cookies for breakfast?"
Ulqui grabbed one and held it out to the kit. "Cookies for breakfast."
They lounged on the couch as they ate their less than healthy breakfast; Nitya joined them later and partook of the yummy meal. They relaxed for a bit before the guardian alpha announced that it was probably best that they head back, as they had to make two other trips that same day. Sulalita made a regret-filled sigh and nodded.
"You're right. Putra, is my dress dry?"
"It should be... I'll check." Ulqui stood and headed for the basement. "Oh, and you can keep the sweater you wore yesterday, but you know father won't like you having the pants."
"You're spoiling me with all of these gifts!"
Ulquiorra shrugged. "You deserve some spoiling."
Grimm rose to his own feet. "I may as well pack up some of Pan's things and your treats as well."
"Can I bring my drawing stuff and paper?" Pan wondered as he sipped his milk.
Grimm answered the query with an affirmation, and left to get everything together.
Not much time had passed when everything was ready, and Sulalita and Nitya took their leave. Grimmjow, Ulquiorra and Pantera went on with their day as they awaited her return.
x~x
Ulqui's ears perked when there was a knock at the glass door and Pan cheered and ran to it screaming for his grandmother. The door was opened and he was in Sulalita's arms by the time Ulqui managed to untangle the yarn from his lap and walk over to the door.
Not only had his mother returned with Ayasa and Himsa but his father was there as the escort instead of Nitya. He greeted them all.
"I don't like that you both made all these plans without consulting me," Vegatama grumbled as he hugged Ulqui.
"Oh hush," Sulalita told him and hugged Ulqui next. "I do hope the boys aren't too bad for you," she told him as she looked to the kits warily. Pan was on the floor with them now, smiling warmly and curiously while they seemed to scrutinize him.
"You're very thmall," Ayasa murmured with a more than slight lisp to his tone as he clutched the ball he'd brought with him to his chest.
Himsa crossed his arms. "Are you a newborn?" he asked without a lisp to his voice.
It seemed that both boys had more of their father in them, much like his sister Lajjalu. Their hair was black like Sulalita's however their eyes were yellow and skin slightly tanned from their father's genes. They were easy to tell apart when they opened their mouths since Ayasa was the only one with a lisp, however when they weren't speaking they could be told apart by the large splotchy birthmark on Himsa's little shoulder.
"I'm not a newborn, I'm two!" Pan happily offered the information.
The twin's looked at each other with a gleam in their eyes that made Ulqui's ears flatten. "You're a runt?" Pan nodded and with twin roars he was pounced upon. He squealed in fear as fangs bit and claws scratched.
Ulqui swiped at their bottoms and they jumped away grasping them.
"Boys! Don't mess with your cousin; he's much too young for you! You should know better," Sulalita scolded as Ulqui gathered his kit in his arms to make sure that any marks were just that; marks. None of them needed bandages, but he made sure to kiss a few of them better.
The twins stuck their tongue out at their mother making her flinch and give a sad half-hearted glare.
Grimmjow did one better as he entered the room and saw their disrespectful reaction to the scold. "Stick your tongues at your mother again, and I rip them out."
The seven year-olds looked up to the tall human and screamed in fright. Sulalita smiled and went over to hug Grimmjow. "Hello narya jamatr. Boys, Grimm here will be taking care of you for a week."
Himsa pointed. "You're leaving us here with him?!"
"You can't! He'll eat uths!" Ayasa claimed.
Pantera's nose wrinkled. "No he won't."
"Be quiet, tiny! You're thafe because you won't have enough meat on your boneths until your at leath twelve!" Ayasa said, stumbling over some of his words.
"Agraja, don't stay with him, he'll eat your kits!"
Grimmjow looked to Ulquiorra. "What kind of rumors about humans do you spread in your village?!"
Ulqui shrugged. "This is a new one."
The bluenet sighed. "I'm not going to eat you brats..."
"Liar!" Himsa said.
"Villain!"
"Fiend!"
"Boys!" Vega roared. "That's enough out of you!" He sighed and plucked Pan from Ulqui's arms. "I do hope you know what you're doing, putri."
"Putra," Sulalita corrected and earned a growl from her husband. She lowered her ears submissively making Ulqui feel a slight twinge in his heart. He didn't get to say anything as the happy woman kissed him goodbye and stepped out the door.
"Try to get them to eat; they haven't eaten since dinner yesterday." Vega kissed him as well and followed his mate.
"You're really leaving us here?!" Himsa cried. The glass door was slid closed with a thump, answering the boy's question.
Grimm flipped the latch and drew the curtains. He turned around and glared down at the two boys semi-huddling close together sending defiant glares at the human. "Alright, brats. Let's just get this straight, right here and n-gh!"
The ball Ayasa had been clutching sailed through the air and smacked Grimm straight in his jaw. The kits screamed and darted off towards the back of the house.
"Those little-!"
Ulqui placed a hand on his shoulder and went after them in his stead. He found them cowering under the bed. "Come from under there kanisthas. My mate will not harm you."
"You don't know anything, agraja! He's hypnotized you; jyestha said so!" Himsa said.
"Jyestha knows nothing."
"He knows everything," they said in unison. "Pitr too."
He wouldn't argue anymore, it would get him nowhere. He reached under and grabbed them wanting to to yank them from beneath the bed. He jolted when his fingers were bit and snatched them away. Ayasa and Himsa surged out of their hiding spot, and ran away again, bumping Ulqui into the dresser while fleeing. He heard Grimm yell something at them while he clutched his head, wincing.
Ayasa and Himsa wailed in fear before there was a slam of a door and Grimmjow joined him in the bedroom. He gently checked the area Ulqui was grasping. "I locked their little asses in the other bedroom. Don't worry, Putrika and Kumbara are in the locked closet, so they can't get to them." He sucked his teeth. "Nothing bad, this'll just hurt for a bit. Come on."
Grimmjow helped Ulqui to his feet and led him from the room, they both heard the kits bumping around in the other room as they passed it, but let them be figuring it would be best to let them tire themselves out.
"I'll start on dinner, you just relax and knit. When they fall out we can bathe them while they sleep and then tie them to the chairs to eat."
A tiny smirk formed from Ulqui's lips and he snuggled up to his mate to receive a kiss before retreating to the couch. He was happy to get back to his string craft.
x~x
Grimmjow hadn't been up for anything elaborate, so he ended up whipping up some tartar sauce to go with some store bought fish fingers and stove top potatoes. He looked up when he noticed Ulqui go by. "Something wrong?"
Ulqui shook his head and told him he was going to run the bath for his brothers.
Grimm chuckled. "I was just kidding about tying them to the chairs, but should we actually do it?"
Ulqui paused. "Just... use a belt to strap them to the chairs. Just one each."
"You know best," the bluenet said as he fixed servings for them all. He put the plates on the table before going to his closet and getting two fabric belts. He put those on the chairs the twins would be sitting in (he decided that they would sit diagonal from each other at the table) and joined Ulqui at the room door. He pulled out the key and slowly entered after unlocking the door.
Just as they'd hoped, the pair of misinformed troublemakers were out, lying in a corner curled around each other. Grimmjow grabbed and undressed Himsa and Ulquiorra got Ayasa ready for his bath.
Himsa woke as Grimm carried him to the bathroom. "I have to pee..." he murmured and rubbed his eyes. Grimm set him on the toilet and let him relieve himself before putting him in the tub with little trouble.
Ayasa was another story.
The boy shrieked as soon as he touched the water and fought Ulquiorra to get out, digging his little claws into his porcelain arms. Ulqui hissed and bit the little ones scruff making him fall limp. Grimm looked over Ulqui's arms as he asked if he was okay.
The older neko grunted an affirmative before proceeding to wash Ayasa who simpered and whined. Himsa was much better in comparison, only giving Grimm grief when he went to clean his ears and a little more when he woke fully to see that it was Grimm bathing him. When they finished they dressed them in some simple clothes that Grimm ran out and bought earlier. Just some solid navy blue shorts and white t-shirts; the elastic on the shorts were thin enough that they could sit just below their tails.
"I'm not hungry," Himsa snapped and tried to scoot out of the seat as Grimm set him there.
Grimm merely grumbled, "You need to eat," and made him face his plate.
He tried to move again. "I don't want it!"
"Then you sit there and stare at it till you do."
"No!" Himsa pushed at him but couldn't get away before Grimm looped the long belt around the seat of the chair and the kit's lap. "Hey!"
"I said, 'you sit there and stare at it till you do." Grimmjow took the seat beside him and poured ketchup on his own potatoes. He stabbed one and held it out for Himsa to eat, but the kit humphed and turned his head away.
Ulqui had the same problem and had to strap Ayasa to the chair across from Grimmjow. The elder neko sat in his own seat and started eating the fish fingers.
Later, the adults finished off their dinner whereas the kits had yet to touch the food on their plates. Ulqui washed the dishes while Grimmjow remained at the table with them. "Are you going to eat?"
"No," they both told him adamantly.
"Then you be here for a while because I'm not letting you up. You sit there all night if you have to, and in the morning I'll just warm your food back up and set it in front of you again."
They glared at him and he speared a fish finger on Ayasa's plate. He dipped it in the tartar sauce and held it out to him. The lisping twin sent him a wet hiss and the human just set the fork on the plate and went to sit on the couch with Ulquiorra.
An hour passed and his lids began to droop when scraping joined the clicks of Ulquiorra's knitting needles. A triumphant smirk reached his lips at the addition of appreciative "hm"s and "mm"s coming from the table behind him.
"Don't eat that, he just wants to fatten you up so he can eat you!" Himsa whispered harshly.
"But iths good. Try it."
"Never."
"Whatever." More sounds of eating came from Ayasa. About ten minutes later he said, "I'm done, agraja."
The mama-cat got up and went to free him as well as wash his dish. The kit told Ulqui that he needed to use the bathroom and he was guided to the needed area.
"Heeey!" Himsa yanked at the belt and tried to see where they'd gone. "Let me up too."
"Eat first," Grimm told him.
"I won't!"
"Then sit there."
The kit yelled and flailed in his seat.
Geez, Pan's never done anything like this. Now I'm really glad we took them off of Sulalita's hands for a bit. Any one would need a break after having these around for seven years...
Ayasa had to sit next to Ulqui on the couch, and the older neko wisely rested a leg as well as the balls of yarn on the kit's lap to make it harder for him to run away. He surprisingly remained still, just watching Ulquiorra knit. After a while he began nuzzling the soft yarn balls.
Grimmjow grinned but knew that this calm moment would be very short, and nothing compared to the headaches he'd get through out the week having him and his brother there.
Perhaps only five minutes later...
Slam!
Grimm cursed and they all looked to the table to see Himsa's plate on the floor.
"Aw, if you didn't want it, I would've ate it..." Ayasa murmured while the human got up to clean the mess.
Himsa was sending Grimm a smug look. "Now I can't eat it, so you can't keep me here."
"No, now I'll just free you when I feel like it." He dropped the plate in the sink and grabbed the still wet rag and the broom. "And right now, I don't feel like it."
Himsa's face reddened and he let out another wail.
"Scream all you want," he said as he dumped a load of wasted food into the trashcan in the kitchen. "It wont get you out of the chair."
"Stupid evil human! Pitr should kill you and take agraja home!"
Grimm shrugged and took the seat across from him. "Your pitr and matr like me so don't press your luck."
He growled and fought with the belt holding him hostage again. "Aya, help me!"
Grimm saw the other kit lurch into action, but was instantly yanked back when his Ulqui grabbed his scruff. "Don't you dare," he growled menacingly despite his monotone voice. He settled him back under the yarn and his leg and went back to knitting his blanket. It was getting quite large, and was probably big enough to cover half of the bed.
"Aya!"
"I can't, agraja won't let me," he wisely said.
"Agraja, you traitor!"
Grimmjow shook his head at Himsa. "You're a brat..."
"Shut up, stupid human!"
Ulquiorra suddenly stood and set his craft to the side before stalking over. He swung Himsa chair around and gripped the front of his t-shirt. "Bad mouth my mate again and I will hurt you the way only a big sister could." He shook him. "Got it?"
Himsa curled his lip and growled low.
Ulqui let him go roughly, and straightened. "Ayasa come here." He looked to Grimm. "I'm going to take a bath now."
"Okay, I'll just stay here and stare at this one over here." He watched as Ayasa walked over and took Ulqui's hand when prompted to do so. "Aw, why'd you get the semi-good one."
The emerald-eyed neko shrugged. "We could switch..."
"Nah, you'll have to deal with 'em both tomorrow, so I'll let you have the quiet before the storm."
Ulqui let out a monosyllabic chuckle and walked towards the back. Grimm received a kiss and watched them go before looking back to his current charge. "Now where were we?"
x~x
Ulquiorra got his pyjamas and undressed when he entered the bathroom with his little brother nearby. Still clad in his underwear, he began running some bathwater. Ayasa had been leaning against the wall, and looked up when he was called and moved to obey when Ulqui told him to sit on the toilet lid. The water reached the preferred height before he slipped out of his undies and relaxed in the tub. He grunted in annoyance when he realized he'd forgotten to tie up his hair.
A moment passed and he opened his eyes to look at Ayasa. "Is this an act?"
"K-Kim?"
"Matr told us that you both act horribly for her, though you seem well-behaved compared to Himsa."
His ears fell in a look of guilt.
"You're not actually bad are you? You're just following Himsa's lead. Is he the older?"
Ayasa nodded.
"You shouldn't follow a bad leader." Ulqui shifted to rest his head on the edge when the little one refused to acknowledge what he'd said.
His bath went by in silence and they left the bathroom after he'd dried and dressed in his nightclothes. His mate and brother were still at the table, Himsa glaring with arms crossed while Grimm yawned every so often. He decided that he'd get the older male to bed and deal with Himsa by himself.
Grimmjow was reluctant, but happy to be freed from watching the most troublesome of the kits (at least in Ulqui's opinion it was so) and went to bed. Himsa expected to be freed once the human was gone, but he was sorely mistaken and had to be scolded when he began shouting loudly at his "traitorous sister".
In the end, Himsa wasn't left in the chair for too much longer, as it was late. After moving his craft to the extra room, he released Himsa and escorted him and Ayasa there where he made them settle in the nest of blankets he made for them.
"You're thleeping with uths then, agraja?"
"Just for tonight." He knitted without looking at them and they remained relatively quiet for the night. Ulqui fell asleep sitting on his pillow before long.
x~x
Second day
When he awoke the following morning, it was to Grimm kneeling down to kiss him and pulling a blanket over him. Ulqui groaned in pain at the slight crick that had developed there from sleeping, propped up, against the wall. Grimm gave it a little rub and tugged him down so that he could curl up on the plush cushion.
"I'm heading out," Grimm said. "I made breakfast for you and whoever else'll eat it; it's in the oven."
Already leaving? "Did I really sleep so late?" he grumbled.
"Yup." He kissed the neko's brow again. "Call me if they become too much for you, and I'll send someone over to scare them a bit," he joked. Grimmjow rose to his full height, looming over Ulquiorra in a way that reminded him of his first days with the hunter, before turning and leaving.
Ulqui laid there well after he'd heard the truck pull out the driveway and hum off, rising only when pressure built up in his bladder. With a sigh, he left the room to take care of his lavatorial business. Hunger set in when he was done and he went to the kitchen.
He was happy with what he found in the oven. Plates (a large one for him and two smallers for the kits) of french toast and sausage links were waiting to be eaten on the top rack. He grabbed the one for him and then the syrup from where it'd been placed on the counter and headed for the table. He settled after doubling back for a glass of milk.
He poured a small pool of syrup in the corner of his plate as he thought over what to do for the day. As he dipped a piece of french toast into the sticky amber puddle he realized that having his brothers over ruined more than he'd thought.
He was feeling energetic that day, and usually when he got that way he'd walk around the neighborhood with Pantera or just go out and climb a tree or two. He couldn't do that with his brothers. Oh no. They weren't registered for one, and for another with what his mother had told him, they'd probably try to run off. With there being two of them, he couldn't possibly keep them from succeeding in that venture. Ulqui sighed and finished off the first slice of french toast, he'd just have to keep them inside until he could trust them enough to let them, at least, in the backyard.
Black ears perked and he looked over to see Himsa wander in from the back. "Where's the human," he asked after looking about.
"Out, he'll be back later," Ulqui told him and bit into a yummy link. He made a delighted hum in realizing that it was chicken sausage instead of the usual pork.
"Good."
He swallowed the morsel and sipped his drink. "Are you hungry?"
"Was it the human who made the food?"
Ulqui knew where this was going and answered truthfully anyway.
"Then, no, I'm not hungry." He crossed his arms and glared. "Are you going to tie me to a chair now?"
"That didn't work, so now I'll just let you starve yourself," Ulqui dead-panned with an indifferent shrug.
"Um... I'll eat, agraja," was how Ayasa meekly entered the conversation.
Ulqui nodded and got up to get one of the smaller servings of food from the oven as well as some milk. The twins conversed as he got everything together.
"No! You can't eat that, Aya!"
"And why can't I?"
"Because the human made it."
"Tho? I'm hungry and agraja wouldn't let him hurt uths, tho I'm gonna eat it."
"Sure she would, she's under a human spell. She even looks like it, all dead faced and weird sounding."
"Shlee could've alwayth been like that."
"She wasn't."
"How would you know? We were newbornths when shlee left!"
"I know everything about agraja."
"What's her... favourite color?" Ayasa asked before climbing into the chair to get to his plate.
"Blue."
"I prefer purple," Ulqui announced as he reclaimed his own seat.
Himsa humphed and Ayasa stuck his tongue out at him. The younger twin tucked into his meal, mimicking the way Ulquiorra ate his food, and after a while Himsa took the chair to his brother's left. Ayasa was nearly done with his breakfast when he offered a piece of sausage to Himsa.
"Here, iths better than the food laths night. Try it." Himsa turned his head away and Ayasa just ate the sausage himself. "Did the human make the evening meal too?"
"Yes, he makes most of the meals."
"Will you make dinner tonight, agraja?" Himsa inquired.
Ulqui shrugged. "Probably not..." That was a lie, however. He almost always made dinner, especially on days when Grimm worked diner shift. Maybe he could ask Grimm to bring something home from work, it'd been a long time since he'd had a deer steak. That reminded him of hunting, and how it'd been longer still since he'd hunted. "You'll just have to eat whatever my mate makes when he gets home, or just keep starving yourself."
"That's what I'll do then," he snapped and glared at Ulquiorra. Ulqui met his eyes and held the challenging glare with ease.
Ayasa bumped Himsa making him lose the contest and swirled a finger around in the streaks of syrup left on his plate. "What's this sticky sweet stuff, anyway?"
"Syrup."
"If Himsa doesn't eat can I have his breakfast with some more syrup later?"
"Yes."
He beamed and went back to mopping up the syrup with his fingers.
Himsa scooted out of his seat. "Can I go outside?"
"No, I don't trust you. You'll stay in here."
"I want to go outside."
The eldest neko stood to gather the dishes and wash them along with the few left in the sink from the preparation of the meal. "I don't care."
"You can't keep us in here!"
"Watch me."
Himsa was going to yell some more, but Ayasa interrupted. "What are we going to do if we can't go outside."
"You brought your ball, you can play with that." Ulqui told him. The kit went to find the forgotten toy and his brother grumpily followed and joined him as he rolled and pounced on the ball made from grass stuffed animal hide.
The play soon turned into rough-housing. Ulqui was unconcerned as he sat on the island and watched them from the higher vantage point. Himsa squealed and bit down on Ayasa's shoulder when the other had latched onto his tail.
"No blood," Ulqui warned. They grumbled their acknowledgment of the warning while still gnawing on each other playfully. He moved off of the high surface and went to the phone to call Grimmjow.
b~~~d
"Hash browns, eggs, and sausage platter for table 3," Grimm called as he set the plate on the windowsill to be picked up. He grabbed another ticket from the rotary and started on that order. He flinched when he felt his cellphone buzz in his back pocket; he'd forgotten to put it in his locker. He flipped the slices of ham he was frying onto a plate and wiped his hands before pulling it out and wedging it between his cheek and shoulder. "Everything alright?" he immediately asked. "I can have someone over before you can blink."
There was a shushing sound of Ulqui shaking his head and his hair rubbing the mouthpiece in the process. "No, it's fine for now, though Himsa still hasn't eaten. I was just wondering if you could bring something home from work."
"Ah, sure. Sure, what do you want?" Grimm listened as he whipped up the next order while taking his mate's over the phone. He was very surprised he didn't accidentally mix them up. He told the neko that he'd be sure to bring home the meal and chuckled at the confused silence he got when he sent a kiss to him.
With the phone back in his pocket he could use both hands to work again.
The rubber double doors flapped open, letting in Nnoi lugging a overfilled tub of dishes to wash. He started setting them up to be hosed down as he spoke. "Haven't seen Pan and Ulqui in a while, mind if I come over?"
"Pan's not home actually, he's with his grandma."
"Grandma? I thought you lost touch with your folks."
"Not my folks, Ulqui's. I told you about his father and brother right? Well I met his mother too."
"Oh yeah! Damn, I wish I could've met her; what's she like?"
Grimm chuckled and put a new plate on the sill to be taken. "She's beyond sweet, and looks exactly like Ulqui, I mean I came in the house and started hugging and kissing on her before Pan noticed that she wasn't his mother and Ulqui walked in and set things straight."
Nnoitorra laughed as he hosed the dishes down before taking soap to them. "Did he get mad?"
"No, not at all."
"So how long will Pan be gone for?"
"A week. Meanwhile we've got Ulqui's little brothers. Couple of hellions they are. Well... one way more than the other."
"What's wrong with them?" Nnoi asked and then listened as the bluenet outlined everything that happened the night before. "Yeah, they sound like little bastards. Sounds like there's hope for the lisping one though. What's his name again?"
"Ayasa. Means 'trouble'."
"Naming your kid something that is just asking for... well trouble." He laughed at his unintentional pun.
"They didn't name him that beforehand, yah know? He earned that name with his behavior."
Nnoi nodded and started rinsing the dishes. "From what you said about him, though, he could get a new name. I hope the same can be done for the other one."
Grimmjow nodded and continued on with making orders.
The diner remained packed well into the afternoon, but slowed down a bit around 6 o'clock. Grimm was happy for the lull and took the time to make and pay for the dinner Ulqui wanted. He packed the meals into three styrofoam carry-out cases and put them into the fridge with his name written on them. The changing of the plates happened and then he was able to change and head home for the night.
The lights were on in the living room when he pulled up, and he quickly grabbed the bag of food and headed to the front door. It opened before he could find the right key on his keyring and he smiled and kissed the neko looking out at him. "I come bearing gifts of deer steak and potatoes."
Ulqui scoffed and let him in.
"Aw you're back? I was hoping you'd disappeared," Himsa sniffed as Grimm got out of his shoes and jacket.
"Yeah, yeah. I missed you too," Grimm muttered and strolled to the kitchen.
"Blech, who missed you?"
"I did," Ulquiorra said.
Ayasa walked in from the bathroom. "The humanths back?" He turned and saw Grimm in the kitchen, pulling out food. "Oh you have food! Aw, but I already ate..."
"You can have later then," the human told him. "I thought Sulalita had a hard time feeding them?"
"Ayasa was always having snacks between meals it seems," he scratched an ear as he spoke. "That and the other mothers always let him have tastes of what they were making, so he was always full by dinnertime. Himsa's still being difficult, but he says it's just because you're making the food."
Ayasa walked up and latched onto his sister's side. "I can't eat a whole bunch but can I have a bite of that? Juth a bite?"
Grimm chuckled and cut a piece off of a steak and it was offered to the elbow-high kit on the end of a fork Ulqui held. He happily chewed the cold piece of meat and then asked for another bite. Ulqui gave him a red potato from the meal instead.
Ulqui crossed his arms. "I should change your name to Baubhuksa*," he told him.
"Okay," he accepted easily.
"No!" Himsa protested.
Blue eyebrows came together. "Wait? You can just... change their names at will?"
"Yes, so long as I'm related to them and have custody of them; even if it is temporary."
"Doesn't that get confusing?" he asked as he put a plate into the microwave and hit a few buttons.
"Not usually... but I guess I'll hold off on renaming my brothers until I hear about how they act when they get back home."
"I think that's best."
He warmed up their dinner and settled at the table with his mate in the seat next to him. Himsa disappeared into the back (Grimm kept an ear out for any trouble) and Ayasa stayed close to Ulqui hoping for more bites of food. Grimm offered to warm up his dinner, but the kit claimed that he wouldn't be able to finish it.
"That's enough," Ulqui murmured after giving Aya a spear of asparagus. "If you want more get it from Grimmjow."
The kit looked at the human warily. "I... I'm not hungry..."
Before they could counter that lie, Ayasa ran off to join his brother in the back. Grimm only shook his head and went back to eating. "Well, at least he'll eat the stuff I cook. Himsa hasn't eaten at all?"
"No, but he'll cave soon, I feel."
"I hope so. Does he drink water at least?" Ulqui nodded. "Oh good. Hey, when we're done with this, I got some rice pudding as well."
x~x
Third day
The next day, Grimm went off to work and the call he got from Ulqui was a positive update. Himsa had indeed caved and had the rice pudding for breakfast, and liked it; Ayasa had his as well and would probably eat the previous day's dinner for lunch. When he got home, they both avoided him much to his confusion.
"And here I thought Ayasa was warming up to me."
Ulqui was quiet for a moment. "I think Himsa convinced him to keep fearing and hating you..."
"Himsa huh? So he must be the mastermind behind their horrible behavior."
"He is... I'll talk to Aya tomorrow."
Grimm nodded. "Since I worked diner shift for the weekend, they're letting me have Monday off. I'll be here, but I'll probably run out to the store. We need a few things: toilet paper, soap, milk, yah know."
"Okay... want to shower with me?"
He grinned and wrapped an arm around the other's waist. "Of course."
The shower went quick and without any "playing around" and they left to find the twins in their room playing with the ball. Himsa glared at Grimm but Ayasa just diverted his eyes. Ulqui went in to fix up their bed and told them to remain there, same as the previous night, before he and Grimm retreated to their own room.
Grimm flipped up the blankets, but Ulquiorra stopped him before he could lie down. "What?"
"Undress..."
"Hm? Why?"
"I want to sleep skin to skin with you."
Grimm blinked but then a smirk took over his face. They both disrobed and Grimm pulled Ulqui into his arms and flopped onto the bed. They easily got comfortable, Grimm embracing the neko with his nose burrowed into ebony hair and Ulqui had his face pushed into the human's slightly furred chest.
The position felt so right to both partners.
"This makes me want to get Pan a bed just so we can do this every night."
Ulqui sighed and nuzzled his chest. "Perhaps at a later time."
x~x
Fourth day
Ulqui remained home (of course) while Grimmjow went out to shop, he watched warily and listened in as his brother spoke amongst themselves.
"The human ithn't that bad... he theemths nithe."
"Has he hypnotized you too?"
"No!" Ayasa stammered as he tried to form his next words. "You can't keep thaying that when you know he'ths been only good to uths. He hathn't tried to eat uths or hurt uths or anything! He'ths a good human."
"You're only saying that because agraja told you that. There's no such thing as a good human."
"But matr really likeths him."
"Well, matr's not all that smart."
Ulqui's ears flattened and he glared at the older of the twins.
"That'ths not nithe to thay."
Himsa shrugged. "It's true. Females just aren't smart, everyone knows that."
"Agraja's thmart."
"No, she's not."
"Yeah, shlee iths! Agraja, aren't you thmart?" he asked bringing Ulquiorra into the conversation.
He shrugged. "I don't know, what makes you think I'm smart?"
"You can thspeak another language! And you're alwayths weaving that weird blanket. It lookths really hard to learn to do."
"That doesn't make agraja smart."
"Yeah it doeths."
"No, it doesn't."
"We'll thee if pitr thinkths that agraja ith thmart when he geths here!"
"Fine! He'll agree with me anyway and he'll think you're stupid for thinking differently."
Ayas's brow creased and he pouted. "You're mean..."
"Yeah and you're stupid, what's new?"
At that, the younger scowled and stood. He turned to stomp of but Himsa reached out and grabbed his tail.
"Where are you going?"
"Let go of my tail. I don't want to talk to you anymore."
Himsa yanked and Ayasa fell onto his rump. "Get back here."
"I thaid let go!" he commanded and reached back to cuff his brother in the nose. Himsa yowled and bit him making the other wail in pain.
Ulqui hopped up and grabbed the older twin when he smelled blood. "Let go, Himsa." The kit let go just so he could bite Ulqui's hand. The elder neko yelped and gave him a harsh slap. "Don't bite others."
"Don't tell me what to do!" he yelled and brought his hand across Ulqui's face before darting away.
Ulqui gasped and clutched his cheek where his brother's claws had dug in. Blood oozed slowly from the scores left there. Aya made a surprised sound at the sight. He sniffled.
"Don't cry... it's not that bad..."
The door opened letting Grimm in. "I got all the way out there and realized that I'd forgotten my wallet," he announced on a sarcastic laugh. He went quiet upon seeing Ulqui kneeling on the floor. "Hey, hey what happened?" he asked as he dropped next to his mate.
"I'm fine-"
"Himsa hurt agraja," Ayasa told him.
Grimmjow's grasp on Ulqui's shoulder was firm as he pulled the neko to his feet and dragged him towards the bathroom with Aya close behind. He sat Ulqui down on the toilet, wet a rag and carefully pulled his hand from his cheek so that he could clean the wound. He sighed in relief and made Ulqui hold the washcloth to his cheek. "There's more blood than damage it seems. Did you get hurt too, Aya?"
Ayasa had been clutching his palm to his chest and nodded in answer to the question. Grimm grabbed a new rag to clean his smaller wound.
"He's gettin' it when I'm done here," he grumbled as he shook his head. He grabbed the tube of Neosporin from the first aid kit and put generous amounts of the ointment on their wounds. "He shouldn't be raising his hands against anyone, especially his own siblings!" He peeled the cover off of a large bandage and put it on Ayasa's bite but he had to use gauze and tape for Ulqui's wound since he didn't have a regular bandage big enough for it.
The nekos washed their hands (Aya could only wash one) at Grimm's request and then went to sit on the couch while he went into the extra room where Himsa had hidden.
"COME HERE RIGHT NOW!"
They jumped but stayed seated throughout the yelling and the bit of bumping around as the human no doubt had to catch the young neko so he could dole out the earned punishment. The bumping stopped but wailing took over the silence it left. The crying was louder when the human exited and was muffled once more once the door was closed.
"Neither of you two are to go back there and mess with him, okay?" he ordered and they nodded. He took a moment to check on their bandages and seemed confident that they were secure. "I'm going out like I said, call me if anything happens." They nodded again and the bluenet bestowed a kiss unto Ulqui's forehead. He checked to make sure he had his wallet his time and left.
The truck rumbled off and Ayasa seemed to release a breath he'd been holding. "He'ths really thscary when he'ths mad..."
Ulqui nodded. "I think this is the first time I've seen him actually mad... not just annoyed or frustrated..."
"Haths he ever hit you?"
"Once, but I hit him first." He sighed through his nose and laid down. Emerald eyes slipped closed. "I'm suddenly very tired..." A groan slipped from him as his brother crawled onto his stomach and laid down as well.
"I'm thorry jami* hurt you..."
Ulqui pet his head.
b~~~d
Grimmjow returned from his shopping excursion with his few purchases. He carried everything to the porch before even opening the front door. "Ulqui, can I get some help?" he said and lugged in the toilet paper and two of the six bags. He paused and smiled upon seeing two of the three nekos sleeping on the couch. Ulqui slept on his back with his hands crossed over his stomach and Ayasa had his face burrowed into the pillow opposite Ulqui.
He just shook his head and carried everything to the kitchen by himself. It took a while for him to put everything away but when he finished he went to check on the nekos.
What had been just a spot of red on the gauze on his mate's cheek was now over taking the white so he got the first aid kit to change out the gauze and slather on more ointment. Ulqui woke enough to glare at him grumpily but lied still as Grimm worked. He got up as Grimm went over to check Ayasa's bandage.
"Get everything we needed?" he asked as he stretched in his usual feline fashion.
"Yeah. Himsa been quiet?"
Ulqui murmured, "I guess since he didn't wake either of us."
Grimmjow rested Aya's hand back on the pillow he rested on. "I'm going to have Aya sleep here tonight; Himsa still needs some alone time, and the last thing I want is for the brat to make Ayasa do something stupid and get himself in trouble."
"I agree." Ulqui headed for the kitchen. "I think I'll make lunch."
"Mm, please," Grimmjow murmured and headed for the extra room. The door squeaked slightly as he opened it, drawing the gaze of the golden eyed kit sitting in the corner he'd left him in. He resisted the urge to comment that Himsa had actually followed his directions for once. "Don't look at me," he grumbled and Himsa went back to staring at the corner. Nodding, Grimm went to the pile of blankets and extracted one before leaving and shutting the door quietly behind him.
The soft blanket being lain out on him woke Ayasa, and he sat up and rubbed his eyes. "Um... welcome back, human."
"Call me Grimm, please. And thank you."
The kit nodded but stayed silent.
Ulqui set a plate with a salami, ham, lettuce, and mayo sandwich with chips on the island for Grimm to have and set work on ones for himself and his brothers. The human sat at the island to eat and Ayasa eventually took the seat next to him and received his own lunch.
"It'ths good, agraja. Dhanyavada."
"You're welcome." He set aside the sandwich for himself and made one for Himsa next. "I can give this to him, right?"
The bluenet shrugged. "You can try, no guarantee he'll eat it. If he does you can tell him I said he doesn't have to face the wall anymore."
Ulqui disappeared into the back and returned shortly. "He's quiet... and eating." His eyes narrowed and an eyebrow raised. "What did you do to my kanistha, Grimmjow?"
He swallowed and looked to the suspicious neko. "Same thing my old man did to me when I got outta hand as a brat." He lifted a hand. "Threw him over my knee and took a bare hand to his bare ass. Then I told him to sit and watch the corner, and if I saw him not facing it I'd whoop him again. Seems to have worked, at least for today. For all we know, he'll relapse tomorrow."
He nodded in understanding and went to eat his sandwich.
They finished soon and Ulqui gathered the dishes and threw them into the sink for later.
"Agraja... can I go out-thide?"
"You'll have to ask my mate..."
Grimmjow gave him a look wondering why it was specifically up to him. He dropped it however and looked to Aya who looked away quickly. "Well?"
"C...Can I go out-thide..?" he asked without looking at him.
With a grunt, Grimm slid off the stool and plucked Aya off of his. The kit squeaked in surprise as he was carried towards the glass door. Grimm set him in front of it before putting his nearby ball into Aya's hands and opening the door. "Don't climb over the barrier, or you'll be in trouble."
Aya looked at the green yard in front of him and then at Grimm before wandering out. It was warm enough out that Grimm could leave the door open and he went back to sit at the island where he got a kiss on the cheek.
"What was that for?"
Ulqui nibbled on some chips from the bag. "I just wanted to kiss you."
He crooked his finger. "Well, then get over here and give me a real one."
Ulqui dropped the nearly empty chip bag and strolled over. He wrapped his arms around Grimmjow's neck and pressed his thin lips to Grimm's slightly plumper ones. The bluenet pulled him into his lap and he gladly straddled it, wrapping his legs about Grimm's waist.
Lips retreated, but Grimm went after them and captured them in a kiss again.
They would've kept kissing for quite sometime if they hadn't noticed movement in the corner of their eyes. Himsa was standing quietly in the archway near them.
Grimmjow didn't glare. "Need something?"
The kit held up his empty plate and cup. Grimm held his hand out for it, and set the dishes on the island's top. "Want some more water or anything?" He shook his head. Grimm noticed the kit's gaze on the gauze on Ulqui's cheek. "Something you want to say?"
Himsa looked down. "...m...ry..."
"We didn't hear you..."
"I'm sorry, agraja." He sniffled. "I d-didn't mean to hic! hurt you..."
Ulquiorra slipped off of his mate's lap and stood over his little brother. "I don't accept..."
"Uh... kim? Kena, agraja? I really am sorry!"
"You would've never hurt me or your brother had you had a better grip on your temper. You wouldn't be here, disrespecting me and my mate, in our nest if you didn't cause so much trouble in the village; if you hadn't infected Aya with that terrible attitude you have. I bet you would raise your hand against matr if the whim struck you."
"I-I wouldn't!"
"You would... and you know it."
Himsa's ears flattened and he looked to his feet without another word.
"You should know better, Himsa. Right?"
He nodded slowly.
"Then it shouldn't have taken until my mate put his hands on you for you to realize that! Right?"
He nodded again.
"Well as long as you are aware of that, I think you can go back to the room and think on it."
"Yes, agraja," Himsa uttered sadly as he turned and went back to the bedroom, his head hanging the whole way.
Ulqui watched him and turned around only after the door had clicked shut. "What are you smiling at?"
Grimm chuckled and shook his head. "You're such a mom."
"Is that a bad thing?"
"No, never."
x~x
Fifth Day
Himsa was still quiet the next day, his previous attitude still extinguished for the moment. Under the watchful eye of Ulqui, he made up with his brother and then the mama-cat allowed them to play in the backyard. They eventually went back inside for dinner (they had played through lunch) before taking a nap on the loveseat. Grimmjow returned while they were still asleep.
"Any problems?"
Ulqui shook his head, his hands busy with his needle and yarn craft. "There's dinner for you in the oven."
"Great." Grimmjow undressed from his outerwear. "I'll eat then take a shower. After that we can give the kits baths."
Ulqui lifted his gaze and watched Grimm as he moved about to do what he'd planned. Green cat eyes lowered from the organized mess of blue on his mate's head to his back where the material of his shirt clung to show off muscles and then lower to his backside. He rose from the couch.
"Dyaah!" Grimm jolted and gripped his plate tight when hands suddenly grasped his rear. "Something catch your attention back there?" he joked.
Ulqui squeezed. "I want to mark you."
"Mark?"
Slim hands slid to rest in front of Grimm's waist, making a loose embrace. "We don't carry each other's scents as strongly as if we'd marked each other."
"Oooh, mark." Grimm set his plate down and turned to wrap his arms around Ulqui. "I want to mark you too. Unfortunately, we'll have to plan for that. On a day where there are no kids around, and I'm not tired from work."
"I would like that." He sighed, melting into the hug. "I think I'm getting close to my fertile period. It's making me feel this intense urge to mate. I... want to mate with you."
"Soon, babe. Soon." They kissed.
"I don't like you holding my agraja like that."
"Oh, hello to you too, Himsa," Grimmjow greeted as they both looked to the kit on the other side of the barrier; only his head and shoulders were visible above the island.
"Agraja should have a strong neko as a mate, not you."
Ulqui pushed away after giving him another kiss. "You eat, I'll go give him a bath."
"Agraja, I mean it!" Himsa whined when he was ignored. The whining was much preferable to the usual growling and snarling he usually did.
"I don't want a different mate," Ulquiorra told his sibling as he rounded the barrier and took his hand. "I love Grimmjow as my mate." He led him towards the bathroom.
Himsa allowed himself to be led away without qualm. "But why?"
"Because I feel safe and happy with him."
"You could be safe and happy at home too," he claimed as he took a seat on the toilet, and watched Ulqui run some bathwater for him.
"I may have been safe at home, kanistha, but I was never happy."
"O-Oh..."
Ulqui stopped the water and stood, tossing in a rag. "There. Now will you get in yourself, or will you give me trouble?"
He hopped off the lid and began undressing. "That's not me that's bad with baths, that's Aya."
"Why is that?"
"He fell into a river and almost drowned when we were five," Himsa murmured an stepped into the warm water. "Jyestha saved him before he swallowed too much water."
"Have you tried helping him get over his fear?"
Himsa shook his head.
"As his jami you should. I'm going to go get him now." He turned to leave.
"Okay. Ah, agraja?"
Ulqui turned back to him to see Himsa reaching out a hand and took it. "Yes?"
He pursed his lips and looked down, unable to say what he wanted to say, but Ulqui figured it out.
"I haven't yet forgiven you," he told him softly as he touched the fresh gauze on his cheek. "You haven't earned it yet."
Himsa let go and went back to washing himself.
Ulqui was met with a surprise when he left the bathroom. Ayasa was near his mate, albeit with the barrier between them, timidly asking for a bite of Grimm's dinner. Spearing a bite for the kit, the bluenet held it out for him to take and eat. Ulqui called to his little brother and beckoned for him to come and take his bath.
He hesitated long enough that Grimm had to glare to get him moving. Aya undressed when he entered the bathroom and stood next to the tub. He didn't move to enter it.
Ulqui cleared his throat.
Himsa jolted. "Oh... uh. Come on Aya. It's okay, it's not deep." He offered his hand.
Whimpering a little, the younger took his twin's hand and carefully climbed in. He took another rag and began to wash. Ulqui left reminding them to call for him if the needed anything.
"Two more days."
The neko drew close to his human. "What?"
"Two more days and we'll have Pan back." He stretched. "I miss my boy."
Ulqui nodded. "Me too."
"I hope he's having fun with his grandparents though. Eh, I'm sure he is." He put his plate in the sink and rubbed Ulqui's ears when he was near. "I also hope we won't have to exchange kits again after this week is up; that your brothers will have learned to behave."
"Ayasa possibly, but I'm... unsure about Himsa..."
Grimm hummed and bobbed his head left to right in an indecisive manner. "Yeah... me too, but at the same time, I don't believe that he is a lost cause; he's still young. He just needs a good role model. His father's a good role mode, right?"
Ulqui appeared saddened and looked off to the side. "Not with the way we think... he believes the same about females as any other male neko -females are beneath males, they couldn't survive without a male around, they're only around to birth and rear kits- he's simply... less harsh about it... and he truly loves mother unlike many other males. Mother loves him back for it."
Grimm pursed his lips.
Ulqui sighed. "It... cannot be helped."
"It can."
"How?"
"Your kind only got this way because of us humans hurting you; directly or indirectly, it really doesn't matter. With the help of the organizations like NRAPA we can fix what we hurt and get nekos back to the honorable, loving culture they once had 60 odd years ago."
"...Perhaps..."
"Agraja! We're done!" one of the twins called to him from within the bathroom.
"Did you clean your ears?" Ulqui called back.
"... No..."
Grimmjow barked out a laugh; Ulqui meanwhile went to assist the kits in making sure they were thoroughly cleaned. After a while, all three nekos left the bathroom, the kits wrapped in towels as their clothing had to be washed. Ayasa looked a bit shaky but was fine despite his fears. They retreated to the room to stay warm and Ulqui returned to Grimm's side as the human was scraping up the last of his dinner. Ulqui took the dish and washed it quickly as the human rose from his seat and headed towards the bedroom to gather his clothes; he followed soon after.
The door the the extra room squeaked silently as it opened and Himsa peeked out of the crack he'd made. "Agraja?"
Ulqui looked at him dispassionately. "Kim?"
"Do you... accept my apology yet?"
Ulqui looked away. "You don't yet deserve it..."
"But-!"
The older neko walked away.
"Agraja, I'm sorry!"
He shut the door behind him, huffing and crossing his arms. "Ah!" he yelped softly as Grimm was suddenly upon him, gently palming his cheeks and inspecting the wound, which no longer bled.
Grimmjow kissed him softly and tangled his fingers in Ulqui's hair. "It's healing really well." He captured his lips again.
Ulqui pulled away and the human instead pressed buttery kisses to his neck. "I heal fast."
He rubbed their noses together before pulling away much to the neko's disappointment. "You're not accepting his apology yet?"
"No... if I accepted it now he won't learn his lesson and something like this," he pointed at the scratches, "will happen again. Probably with matr or maybe another female. I don't want that." It happens enough, he thought to himself.
"Yeah... yeah, I understand, I just don't think he does."
"He will, or he'll just have to leave without my forgiveness come Friday..."
x~x
Sixth Day
Ulqui woke before the sun had risen from it's bed with an awfully dry and awful tasting mouth. Smacking his lips he rose from his bed and slipped away from his mate's warm embrace to go to the kitchen in search of some sort of relief. He slipped on a long nightshirt before venturing to the kitchen on quiet feet and retrieved some water from the tap. He drank most of the water before pouring the rest out and rinsing the rim of the cup off and setting it in the dish drain.
He wandered back towards the bedroom, pausing next to the other bedroom where his brothers should've been resting, as he could swear he heard whispering coming from within. He pushed the door open and peeked his head in. His brothers weren't in their bed as they should've been, but the light was on in the closet. With a silent sigh he went over to the door to get them out of there.
"... agraja still doesn't like me..."
"It'th becauth you're bad."
He paused, his hand hovering over the doorknob when he heard the uttered words. He cocked his head and brought his ear closer to the barrier and listened in on their conversation.
"But I said sorry, and I really really meant it," Himsa sniffled.
"You shloudn't have hurt her in the firth plathe."
"I was angry..."
"Tho?"
"I really didn't mean it... do you forgive me, Aya?"
"..."
"Aya? Please?"
"... okay... but if you ever do that again I'll never ever talk to you ever again!"
"Thank you, jami."
Aya grunted dismissively.
"I just hope agraja will like me again. How can I make her like me again?"
Aya hummed the "I dunno" sound. "Mm mm-mm. Make her happy?"
"How?"
"Just do what shlee tellth you to do. Oh, and don't thay bad thingth about the human anymore."
"Why should I be nice to the human? Humans are bad and agraja needs to be with us in the village with a real alpha."
"The human... Grimm ithn't a bad human... Juth a little thary. I'm tharting to like him though..."
Himsa scoffed. "Should we start calling her jyestha too then?" he grumbled sarcastically.
Ayasa gasped. "That'th a great idea!"
"I was kidding!"
"I'm not. I think agraja would really like that."
A small smile graced Ulquiorra's lips; he would like that, very much so.
"But she's not male."
"Shlee thinkth shlee ith."
"That doesn't make it true."
"You want agra -er- jyestha to be happy with you again, don't you?"
"... yeah..."
"Then juth do what shlee wanth, and shlee wanth to be theen ath male."
The twins grew silent after a while and Ulquiorra decided to finally run them out of their hiding spot. "Young kits should be sleeping," he uttered as he opened the door. The pair squeaked at being caught and darted around his legs to get to their bed. Ulqui pulled the string to turn off the light and went to tuck them in.
"Agraja?" Himsa ventured as the blanket was spread over him and his brother.
"Hm?"
"Can I... have a hug?"
Ulqui stared at him for a moment before dropping the blanket and kneeling next to Himsa. The kit sat up and wrapped his arms around Ulqui's neko while the older neko hugged him tight about the waist.
"Tvam kamiyami, agraja..." he murmured with his face buried in the other's neck.
Ulqui let out a heavy breath. "I love you too, kanistha." He pushed him away, holding Himsa in front of him. "But I'm still angry with you. You know that right?"
He nodded. "I'll get better so you won't be angry anymore."
"Good." He pulled his brother's ear good-naturedly and urged him to lie back down.
At Aya's urging, Ulqui gave him a hug as well before finally leaving them to go back to sleep.
True to his word to his younger sibling, Himsa behaved well the following day. He ate whatever was presented to him be it made by Grimmjow or Ulquiorra; He didn't glare or make snide remarks at the bluenet, he instead sat near Aya as the younger twin timidly attempted to talk to the human from time to time. His temper flared at one point, but instead of lashing out he went and sat in the corner Grimm had put him in those few days ago as if to remind himself what would happen if he acted up again. He returned from his corner after a few minutes calmer and continued on with the day.
Ulqui spoke to him over dinner later that night. He sat next to him at the table, and Grimm sat next to Aya. "Is this how you are now? Or are you behaving well only to earn my forgiveness."
He nodded vehemently. "This is how I am now," he promised. Ulquiorra shot him a dubious look and he lowered his head. "I mean, I'm trying to be this way." He set down his fork. "I don't want you mad at me anymore, and I don't want matr and pitr to have to send us here because we're being bad -because I'm being bad... I'm going to be good now, agraja... I swear."
Ulqui nodded. "In that case... I think I can forgive you now."
Himsa looked up at him, surprise laced his voice. "Really?!"
He nodded again. "However, if I hear from our parents that you're acting up again I'll deal with you personally and harshly."
Himsa leaned over and hugged his older sibling about his torso. "Yes, agraja."
Aya cleared his throat.
"I mean... jyestha. Thank you."
Ulqui scratched his ears and leaned down to kiss the top of his head.
x~x
Final Day
The curtain of the glass doors were left open as they awaited the arrival of Pantera along with whomever was escorting him home. The few articles of clothing Grimmjow had bought for Ayasa and Himsa were put in a bag along with their ball as they weren't playing with it at the moment. At that time they were sticking close to their older sibling as there was no telling when they'd see her again.
Eventually their was a knock at the side door and Grimm looked over to see the short form of his son at the door. He hopped up from the table and went to throw open the door. "Pan." As he kneeled the kitten threw himself into his arms, clutching the human's shirt and burrowing his face into his chest. The bluenet felt Ulqui come up behind him and place a hand on his shoulder as he leaned over to see his son.
"Aw, I missed you so much Pan! How are you?" he asked as he crushed his son into his chest. It was then that he realized that the kit was shaking like a leaf. "Pan? What's wrong?"
He sobbed and snuggled closer as if trying to crawl into the human.
"Pan!?"
Ulqui looked up and over towards the backyard when he noticed movement. His ears flattened in fear and he hunched down behind his mate as a natural reaction to danger. "T-Tatha kimapi nasti...!"
Aah! I'm so glad to be back! I missed you all! It was really hard to get back into Ayasa's speech impediment after two months XD. Oh and if you find any words I failed to translate and put into the dictionary, yeah, bring that to my attention if you'd be so kind!
Dictionary
Baubhuksa: One who is always hungry (Thank you Guest for pointing this one out!)
Jami: Brother or Sister
Narya jamatr: Human stepson
Tatha kimapi nasti: No, it is not so (Note: Think of it along the lines of "No. It can't be!"