Author's Note: I hope that I didn't loose any of you guys with the major fuck up that happened with this story.....
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Warning: This story is of a mature setting, please read with caution.
Chapter 12
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Ichigo was avoided at school, ever since he 'came out of the closet' in front of the entire student body at lunch. It had been nearly three months, not that he minded all that much, he had something way more important on his mind. The doctors said that Nova was doing much better, they changed his casts and bandages saying that all the injuries looked much better..... but he still couldn't be let out of the hospital yet.
Ichigo's mind was also on something else, Grimmjow had gone missing three days after he had raped Ichigo. Aizen, Grimmjow's step father had come asking if Ichigo knew anything.... Ichigo hated to admit it, but he used to be close to Grimmjow, and the fact that it was now three months into his disappearance, Ichigo was worried that something had happened to the teal haired teen.
"Brother?" Yuzu's soft voice came from the door, and Ichigo slowly sat up on his bed and looked at her. ".... I think that you should go to the hospital,"
"Nova," Ichigo's breath hitched, but Yuzu shook her head, then wiped her eyes, sniffling. "Yuzu, what's going on?"
"T-they just found Grimmjow.... He's..... dead," Yuzu said and Ichigo's eyes grew wide.
"What happened?" Ichigo stood and went over to Yuzu.
"I don't know, Dad just called, said to tell you to come to the hospital," Yuzu shook her head, then flung her arms around Ichigo's neck and sobbed. "I'm so sorry Ichigo!" She cried, Ichigo frowned and wrapped his arms around her lightly.
"It's okay Yuzu," Ichigo muttered staring down at the carpet. 'Why does my chest hurt because of this?' Ichigo thought.
"It's all your fault,"
Ichigo flinched hearing Grimmjow's growling voice in his head, and the flashbacks started. Ichigo pulled away from Yuzu quickly, not wanting to touch her with his dirty body. Ichigo slumped to his knees and bent forward until his head rested on his legs, arms tucked tightly against his chest. His stomach churned and his head throbbed and spun
"Ichigo?" Yuzu whispered. "Is your head hurting again? Where's your medicine?" Yuzu looked around frantically, then rushed over to the small desk in Ichigo's room and grabbed the bottles of pills and twisted the caps off, dumping the required number of each pill into her hand, then grabbed the bottle of water from the desk then knelt in front of Ichigo. Ichigo felt like he was suffocating again, his breath came in short panicked gasps. "Here you go Ichigo, I know, it's going to be alright, just take your pills, then you can go to the hospital," Yuzu said.
Ichigo took the pills from her, and put them in his mouth, making a face at the bitter taste they had, then grabbed the water. Ichigo let out a strangled sound mixed between a sob and a sigh of relief.
The doctors said that Ichigo was suffering from depressing from a mix of Nova being in an accident, and his attack. Ichigo didn't try to tell them otherwise. It drove Isshin insane, after having found out what really had happened in the park that day, even more so, when Ichigo wouldn't give up the name of the person that attacked him.
Ichigo took a few deep breaths as his heart rate evened out. "I've got school, I'll go afterwards," He whispered, then stood.
"Are you sure you don't want to stay home today?" Yuzu asked concerned.
"I'm fine," Ichigo pulled on his sweater and grabbed his back, then rushed out of the house before Yuzu could stop him. Ichigo slowed to a walk after he got three blocks away from his house, then stopped at a busy intersection and watched the cars drive by slowly, closing his eyes when the wind from one to close to the curb would rush over him
"Good morning, Ichigo,"
Ichigo jumped, then looked to his right, a broad chest covered in a very tight black shirt, Ichigo looked up. "Chad," Ichigo gave a sad smile, then looked down.
"Did you get the call this morning too? From Grimmjow's dad?" Chad asked.
Ichigo gripped the straps for his backpack tightly and hung his head, nodding. "I w-was.... still in bed, Yuzu answered the phone, then told me,"
"The football teams taking so many losses this year, you quit, Grimmjow's dead...." Chad said quietly and Ichigo closed his eyes tightly. " You okay?"
"Why are you talking to me? Don't you hate me, because I'm a fag?" Ichigo said bitterly.
"Why would I?" Chad asked and Ichigo looked up at him. "We've been friends for a while, I don't care Ichi, I was just giving you some space, you looked like you needed it, I didn't mean to make you feel like I hated you. That's the last thing I wanted, you're my best friend, practically my brother Ichi,"
"It's okay Chad, I know," Ichigo sighed heavily and ran his fingers through his hair.
"You can talk to me, if you'd like," Chad said. "We've always kept each other's secrets,"
Ichigo swallowed as they crossed the streets. "After that day... in the cafeteria," Ichigo started, Chad watched with dark eyes full of concern. "Grimmjow.... attacked me in the park, he.... raped me,"
Chad remained silent, but took a moment, to put his hand on Ichigo's shoulder in comfort, which Ichigo was thankful for.
"Grimmjow and I were secretly dating for a few months, then we broke up, and I started going out with someone else," Ichigo said and Chad looked at him. "He got really mad when I left him,"
"Did you tell anyone?" Chad asked. Ichigo shook his head then looked down. "Why not?"
"Didn't want... something like this to happen," Ichigo muttered.
"Are you heading to the hospital now?" Chad asked. "We could go together,"
".... Oh... sure," Ichigo muttered and walked in silence to the hospital with Chad a few steps behind him.
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Ichigo opened the small door to the room where Grimmjow's body was, hooked up to life support. His step dad sitting in the corner, along with one of Grimmjow's older siblings, Ulquiorra.
Aizen looked up, a look that could only be shown as disgust.
"What are you doing here?" Aizen asked.
"..... I just wanted to..... I'm sorry," Ichigo looked down.
"You really should leave," Aizen stood and Ichigo nodded.
"Can I ask what happened first?" Ichigo whispered.
" He over dosed," Aizen said. "Left a letter for you," Aizen tossed a letter on the floor at Ichigo's feet. Ichigo knelt bent down and picked it up. Ichigo opened it.
Ichigo
You did this to me
Ichigo looked at Grimmjow's body laying on the bed, and swore he saw that magical evil grin on Grimmjow's face. The letter fell out of Ichigo's hands and he rushed from the room. Ichigo slumped against the wall a few rooms down the hall and sank to the floor.
Chad came out to the hall and bent down in front of Ichigo.
"Ichigo?" Chad said.
"You don't have to say anything," Ichigo said. " I know already,"
"Alright, just making sure," Chad said and Ichigo looked up at him.
"Would you like to meet the guy I'm seeing?" Ichigo asked glancing down.
"He's here?" Chad asked.
"You know the car accident that happened a few months ago?" Ichigo mumbled fidgeting with the hem of his pant leg.
"That guy Nova, the kid at the top of the class right? He's the one you're going out with?" Chad asked.
"Remember when I told you I had a thing for red heads right?" Ichigo blushed and Chad snickered.
"Yea I remember,"
"Well it's true," Ichigo shrugged and looked down the hall as a doctor walked into the room Grimmjow was in.
"They are taking him off the life support," Chad said quietly.
Ichigo inhaled deeply, and held his breath. It was almost two minutes before the doctor came out, wheeling the life support machine with him.
"You should really start breathing now Ichigo," Chad said putting a large hand on Ichigo's shoulder.
Ichigo took a deep breath, coughing hard from not breathing and hung his head. "I shouldn't feel bad, after what he did to me,"
"Don't worry about it," Chad said standing, pulling Ichigo up and over his shoulder.
"What the hell are you doing?" Ichigo yelled as Chad carried him down the hall.
"We're going to see your red head," Chad said
"You don't even know what room he's in," Ichigo said.
"Tell me then," Chad said and Ichigo sighed, smiling softly.
"You ass," Ichigo said.
"Do you want me to meet him or not? I've got to make sure he's good enough for you," Chad said.
"What?"
"I'm your best friend, I've got to make sure you get the best of everything," Chad said.
"You're a dork Chad," Ichigo said. "Nova was moved to room 213,"
"Alright," Chad said.
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Chad waved at Ichigo and Nova, then left, closing the hospital room door.
"Are you alright Ichigo?" Nova asked looking down at Ichigo who was laying against him on the bed.
"Yea, now that I've seen you, I'm fine," Ichigo said quietly.
"I never took Grimmjow as the kind of guy to commit suicide," Nova said.
"He had his back in a corner," Ichigo said drawing circles on Nova's chest with his fingers. "Grimmjow was the kind of guy who would rather kill himself, then.... let someone control him,"
"When will you tell me what happened between the two of you?" Nova asked and Ichigo looked up at him.
"What do you mean?" Ichigo asked.
"I know what kiss marks look like Ichigo," Nova said. "And that night you came to the hospital, even though your chest and stuff was covered up by bandages, I could still see part of a few on you shoulders,"
Ichigo closed his eyes, and put his forehead against Nova's chest. "I didn't cheat on you, I swear,"
"Cheat on me? You broke up with me, so technically, you didn't cheat if you two had sex," Nova said.
Ichigo frowned, then looked up at Nova. "Grimmjow..... he attack me, Nova,"
Nova's body stiffened and he wrapped his arms around Ichigo tightly and pressed his lips against Ichigo's temple. "I'm so sorry, I should've been there to protect you," Nova said quietly.
Ichigo leaned his head down and moved closer to Nova. "You don't have to do anything, but get better,"
"Ichigo," Nova sighed and ran his fingers through Ichigo's hair.
"I love you Nova," Ichigo mumbled.
"I love you too babe," Nova said.
Ichigo fell asleep quickly and Nova sighed, he couldn't deal with the emotions flowing through him. It pissed him off that he was still stuck in the hospital, and Ichigo would be going through so much on his own. It angered him that Grimmjow would rape Ichigo, then take the easy way out and kill himself instead of being a man about it, and getting sent to jail. It saddened Nova that he'd been stupid enough to do something that would pull him away from Ichigo for this long.
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Nova looked up as the door to his hospital room opened, Urahara came in and he looked down at Ichigo sleeping against him.
"What's that look for?" Urahara asked.
"Nothing," Nova said closing his eyes.
"I talked to the doctors," Urahara said.
"Yea?"
"They said that you can go home in a few days, but that they don't want you going back to school for a few more weeks," Urahara said and Nova nodded running his fingers through Ichigo's hair and hummed closing his eyes.
Urahara sat down in the chair in the corner. "How are you feeling?" he asked after a few minutes of silence.
"Ready to get out of here," Nova said.
"Figured as much, nearly five months here," Urahara said and Nova nodded again. "Are you two gonna be alright?" He asked.
"I think so," Nova said
"You think?" Urahara asked.
"As long as he'll have me," Nova said and Urahara shook his head. "What?"
"Don't you think that if you want to be with him, that you'll make sure it works between you two?" Urahara asked.
"Yea, but I don't want to push him into something he doesn't want." Nova said.
"So just make sure he wants to stay in the relationship," Urahara said.
Nova smiled. "Good idea,"
"I always have a few," Urahara said shrugging.
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End of Chapter Twelve.
Alright, now I'm back to the point where I wanted to be with this story. There's a few more chapters left in this story, and then I will be focusing on Demonology 101, The Florist and my special project which I'm excited about, but I'm not gonna tell you about it until it's posted. Feel free to guess though, if you got it, I'll tell you. Well gotta go, I have a lot of work to do.
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