Author's Note: I would like to apologize for the mix up since I was not paying attention and had uploaded the same chapter twice. So thank you for the reviews on the warning and I present to you the new chapter.
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Grimmjow allows Gin to pull out the chair underneath the table for her so she can take the seat. He pushes her closer toward the table.
"Well then...since you claim that you're hungry, it wouldn't be right of me to let you just starve now, would it?" The silver haired male quips once he rounds the table and takes his own seat.
"For some reason, I have a feeling that you won't let me live that down?" She alleges with her eyes slit towards Gin.
He laughs to himself at the reaction that he receives from the woman, "You got that right! I finally have some dirt on my Grimmy-kat."
She places both of her hands on the table, "Quit calling me that will you! I'm going to fucking kill you if you keep using that freaking nickname in public with me."
"You know how I am when it come to deals. I always try to find my way out of things…you of all people should know that." The red eyed man reminds her with his hands in the air to show that he was innocent.
The raven haired woman was opting to not argue with Gin since he was always going to have his own way.
She folds her arms across her chest with her right leg over her left leg while she leans her back against the body of the chair.
"Hello. I will be your waiter for today, can I start you off with a drink or something?" Their waiter politely asks once she approaches them with menus in her hand.
"I will have a Iced Tea with a lemon." "I will have lemonade." They place their orders in after they glimpse of the menu in front of them.
"Alright, I will be right back and let me know when you are ready to order." The waiter told them before they leftf the table when they viewed their menu.
"Do you really think that Lord Aizen knew what he was doing when he sent the both of us to the World of Living?" Grimmjow questions after she decides what she wants to eat from the place.
Gin lays his menu down to look directly at her, "Who knows what goes on in that head of his? By now, you should know that he has a warp sense of reality."
She could not help but to agree with what he said about their leader, 'Who really knows what goes on in his mind about us?'
"For all I know, we and the Decimo Espadas are just mere pawns for his use until he find no use for us. Then he will have a valid reason to dispose of us. It seems as if that is the fate of servants to master's." The silver haired was disclosing with a shrugging of his shoulders.
Grimmjow did not know how to respond to that comment but for some reason she felt as if Gin was being honest with her.
"Here are your drinks." "What would you like to order?" The waiter asks with a pen and a pad in her hand before she jots down their orders and leaves again.
The red eyed female was bringing the white straw toward her mouth before drinking a little of the brown liquid enjoying the refreshing taste of the beverage.
"Besides," He cuts his eyes toward her, "You seem quite the happy camper shacking up with Ulquiorra! Getting to have all the sex you want and even when you don't. It's quite the predicament that you are in."
Grimmjow was in shock at his comment before spiting the liquid from her mouth in a jet stream fashion.
She nervously wipes her mouth with her forearm after she comprehends what was said to her. "And exactly what was that supposed to mean?!"
"Just as I said." Gin was stating before placing his drink to his lips and drinking his drink.
"Your aim sucks by the way! You got an innocent bystander wet! You should really apologize to that person behind you." He instructs her once she cleans her mouth with the back of one of her hands.
"I'm surprise you greet acquaintances like this…you sure do have a weird way of greeting people Aoi, Sora." A familiar masculine voice comments before her eyes widen from shock at whom she got wet.
"Ryoui, what are you doing here?" Grimmjow asks out of shock after she realizes who it was.
His red eyes glance up to see a young man with bright orange hair in a spiky manner with the front part of his hair longer than the back. He had dark black eyes that resembled charcoal.
"Well Aoi are you not going to introduce me to your friend?" Gin chimed in after he noticed the shift in her personality ever since the young man appeared.
Her red eyes peer back when she recalls that she was currently with Gin, "Gin, I would like for you to meet, Ryoui. Ryoui this is Gin."
"It is a pleasure to meet you." He extends his hand toward hIm, who accepts it with no hesitation and shakes it.
"Why don't you join us? I heard it's custom for you to invite people that may be good friends to you in the future to events such as these." Gin suddenly poses to Ryoui when Grimmjow notice an evil gleam in his eyes.
'What does he have planned up his sleeves?' She pondered to herself when she watched Ryoui took a seat in between them.
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Ulquiorra was staring at nothing but the white ceiling serving as the apartment's roof with his back on the white carpet floor.
He releases a sigh before he stretches his body as far as it could go with a million thoughts through his head all at once.
'I can't believe that we got into this huge argument…now I feel bad.' The brunette was thinking before lifting his head up and bringing it back down on the floor.
He raised his right hand toward his face when he recalled that it was the same hand that tried to reach out for her when Grimmjow was frightened only to have it not reach.
'Of all the two Espadas Aizen sends to the World of the Living, why would Lord Aizen sends us? Grimmjow just recently transformed into the opposite gender and here we are now…'
He was balling up his hand into a tight fist before slamming it against the floor feeling a stinging in the side of his hand.
'This isn't like me to be so uptight about something that has happened to me. I would usually take a reserved and an isolated opinion of the situation…but I don't think this time it would be that easy.'
The brunette felt a heavy burden suddenly collided against his chest after that previous thought.
It was at that moment did he realized that he was attached to her.
'Of all the people…it had to be Grimmjow Jaegarjaques in her womanly stage.' The hazel eyed male was contemplating to himself before rolling over on to his side.
'I need to distract myself…' He deems before he decides to go for a jog to clear his mind.
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"So Ryoui, how old are you?" Gin queries a couple of seconds after Ryoui occupies a seat at the table.
"I'm eighteen years old." He replies with no hesitation after he hears the question.
"Wow…you are so…" Grimmjow was pausing while staring at Ryoui to see if he was telling the truth or a lie.
"Almost like a baby compared to me." The silver haired male adds while he shifts the menu out of his way and on to the table.
"How old are you two…if you don't mind me asking at all?" Ryoui poses to the pair with obvious tone of curiosity.
"A woman never reveals her age and my companion is in his mid-twenties." The raven haired woman answers his question with honesty.
"Well said Aoi-chan. But why are you giving poor Ryoui the runaround? How tragic…" Gin replies with a smile on his face.
"Ah so not fair…" Ryoui was pouting after hearing the statement that Gin was telling him.
"I would have to agree. It isn't nice to toy with the heart of a young man, especially when they have genuine feelings about the other person." The red eyed male was adding into what Grimmjow was doing to the young man.
'Is this how I treat Ulquiorra? As if he was a toy whenever I pushed him too far? Do I find it amusing when I knew I was going to get hurt in the end?' Her eye lids droop to the form slits, which means she was deep in thought.
'So she finally gets it…' Gin was inwardly assuming after observing her reaction to his statement.
"Where's the guy I saw you with when we first met?" Ryoui curiously poses to Grimmjow.
'Oh…he has finally hit the hammer on the nail. I wonder how she's going to answer this question?' The older man was interested in her answer to his question.
"He's back at home. He didn't feel too good this morning." Grimmjow responds to his question after she places her drink down on the table and suddenly loses her appetite.
"Can you tell him that I hope he gets better? He seems like a nice person when you both came backstage to meet us." Ryoui mentions with disappointment evident in his tone.
'So she's stringing along this poor infant in her tangle of webs?' Gin thought from his observation of Grimmjow and Ryoui.
Ryoui's cell phone suddenly begins to vibrate in his jacket pocket, removes it with his hand and places it to his ear, "Hello".
"Mhm, I will be there as soon as possible. Sure, I will pick up something to eat along the way." He ends his call with that statement before he takes in Gin and Grimmjow at the same time.
"Thank you for allowing me to sit with you all. It was a pleasure to meet you Mr. Gin and run into you again Aoi…well then until next time." Ryoui was politely dismissing himself before pushing his chair back and rising to his feet.
"The pleasure was all my Ryoui-san! I do hope we will be able to meet again." Gin remarks with a mask evident on his face.
"He doesn't seem like a bad kid. I must say Grimmjow, you do have some good taste in guys having just turned away from one." He retorts since he was thoroughly impressed with Ryoui.
She did not immediately respond but rather focus in on her drink in her hand, "I must tell Ulquiorra that he has some serious stiff competition."
Grimmjow finally decides that it was high time to get it completely off her chest, "I'm going home right now! So don't try and stop me!"
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"Hello…there neighbor…" A bob of orange hair catches his attention when he realizes that he was no longer alone in the hallway.
'She's that girl who was arguing with her boyfriend when we were passing them to get to our apartment.' He recalls to himself.
"Hello to you too, neighbor…" Ulquiorra responds back in order to be polite to a stranger, who happens to be a woman.
She steps back from him to allow him more space so he could turn around to completely face her.
Ulquiorra notices that the woman has long orange hair with brown eyes. She was wearing a white blouse openly exposing her average size chest, along with a black pencil skirt and her house slippers on her feet.
'She must have just come back from work…she doesn't look that old though.' He thought to himself.
"I want to apologize for the ruckus me and my ex-boyfriend had made the other day. Besides, I never was able to introduce myself properly when you first arrive due to that inconvenience." The woman was apologizing before bowing toward Ulquiorra.
Grimmjow literally sprinted the entire way and surprisingly was not out of breath, since there was something that fueled her drive to get back home.
'I don't know what it is but it feels as if something bad is going to happen.' She was sensing to herself before running into their complex building.
"Oh, it was nothing at all…it seems as if you handle the business and it isn't right for a stranger to pry into other people's business like that." Ulquiorra simply answers before he slides his keys in his pocket.
The woman suddenly laughs with one of her hand towards her mouth, at his statement, "You sure are a weird guy. It isn't often that I get to meet guys like you…"
He figured the reason for her pause was her indirectly asking for his name, "Taketo, Ryouta, Taketo."
She seemed to be impressed after she heard his name,"It would be rude of me not to tell you my name? My name is Alistair, Katsumi."
Katsumi extends her hand out and was surprise that he accepts it and gently shakes it before he quickly removes his hand.
'He really has some soft hands…'
"It's a pleasure to meet you then. If you don't mind me asking, do you live here by yourself?" She follows up with another question.
Before supplying an answer to the question, he was seeing a raven haired woman peeking out from the corner of the staircase. The brunette's mind instantly registers that it was Grimmjow.
Katsumi felt as if she was being ignored so she traced his stare to see that his sights was on the same lady, who occupied him during her disagreement with her now ex-boyfriend.
'What is this?'
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02.21.17 Major editing revisions