Yesterday Ichigo had taken Grimmjow with him when he went to visit Ishida and Inoue on their farm. They had moved there after the war. Inoue had dropped out of school and Ishida had continued studying from there. The quincy had been worried about Inoue and had decided to stay near her. It was no surprise to the others, since they already knew about the feelings Ishida had towards the airheaded girl and everyone agreed that there was something strange in the usually always-cheerful girl so they were more than relieved to know someone was keeping her company and looking after her.
After they had entered the house with Ishida yesterday the quincy had quickly lead Ichigo further away from Inoue and Ichigo to have a talk with the red head. He had told Ichigo about Inoue´s situation. Ichigo had been shocked to hear about it but he had decided to not push the matter. He would wait and see if she wanted to talk about it.
The ringing of the timer brought him back to reality. Ichigo shook yesterday away from his mind. He needed to concentrate on cooking. The red head had been awake since 6 in the morning. He had gotten up early to cook the ham and to make the traditional Christmas foods. He had gotten the ham from Ishida, who had won it from a lottery set up by the local food market. Ichigo had been grateful that Ishida had thought he might need it since he and Inoue already had bought theirs, so the one Ishida had won had been an extra.
The ham had been in the oven for 5 hours already and it was finally time to take it out. While the ham had been in the oven he had made other Christmas delicates.
As Ichigo opened the foil surrounding the piece of meat and a delicious aroma spread to the kitchen. It floated to their bedroom, where Grimmjow was still sleeping on the bed, his hands and feet curled around the covers. The bluenet opened his eyes slowly, wondering why he felt cold. Then he realized that his berry was up already…again. He had been doing that awfully lot lately. The bluenet grunted and sat up. He ran his hand through his hair and got up. Walking towards the kitchen where he assumed his lover was and when he got to the door he chuckled to himself, he had been right. The kid was cooking something that was for sure. Grimmjow didn´t know what and he decided that he would like to keep it that way. The kitchen table was full of boxes with strange smelling stuff. Grimmjow didn´t want to go there, so he decided to go back to bed and sleep few hours more, after all he never knew when he might need the energy.
AN/: There´s absolutely no point in this, beside that it tells why they went to see Inoue and Ishida in the last chapter…