Chapter 21

Tatsuki

"You cheated!" I yelled as I looked up at the large screen at both of our scores. I pointed the plastic gun over at Grimmjow who was smiling at his score. He only beat me by a couple of points but the fact that he finally won against me seemed to be enough for him.

"I did not!" he yelled in reply.

"So covering my eyes isn't cheating?" I asked.

"No," he replied simply.

"And I suppose pushing me down wasn't cheating either?" I asked.

"Of course not," he replied.

"Then what do you call it?" I asked as I placed my gun into its holder and headed for the door.

"It isn't cheating, it's called good strategy." He said with a triumphant smile as he placed his own gun back into the holder and followed behind me.

"It's cheating." I replied bitterly.

"No it isn't, you're just a sore loser." He replied as he stepped around me hold the door open. I walked past him out into the hallway and headed for our room.

"I'm not a sore loser, you're a dirty cheat." I said to him.

"Hey, you said you wanted to play gamed in this arcade thing, you never said I had to play fair!" he retorted.

I slid our room key into the slot and opened the door; as soon as it closed behind me I was swept off my feet and thrown onto the bed. My body bounced against the mattress before a landed softly in the middle of the bed.

"Do you think that's funny?" I asked as I rolled over to see Grimmjow laughing at me.

"It's hilarious, that's why I keep doing it." he replied with a smile as he walked over from the door to lay beside me on the bed.

"Why do you do that anyway?" I asked as I rolled over to give him space to lie down beside me.

"Do what?" he asked.

"Just pick me up and throw me around without fear of me falling or hurting myself."

"Have you ever fallen before?" he asked.

"no." I replied.

"And what makes you think you will?" he asked.

"Well, I don't know. I was just trying to understand how you can just throw me around like that." I replied. it was true in all the times that he had handled me in such a rough manner I was never hurt. Out of all the times he had thrown me I never fallen or gotten hurt in any way.

"There isn't anything special about it, I just throw you." He replied.

"And what makes you so sure that I will land on top of the bed. Aren't you scared that you could overshoot the bed and accidently throw me onto the floor?" I asked as I sat up on the bed to look down at him. His face was unmoved as he stared back at me.

"I know exactly what I'm capable of in this body. If there was something that I did that would result in you getting hurt I wouldn't do it. Odds are if I'm throwing you around I'm completely sure that there is not possible way you could get hurt." He replied.

"Wait, what do you mean in this body?" I asked. I'm sure he didn't mean anything about it but there was something about the way he said it that told me there was more to his words that he was letting on.

"Uh, what I meant was that I know my own strength, and I know exactly what I'm capable of doing. I know how much you weight and how far the bed is from the door therefore I know exactly how hard I would have to throw you so that you cover the distance from the door to the bed and land safely in the middle." He explained.

"That sounds like a lot of math." I replied.

"It isn't really; it's a lot simpler than it sounds actually. I based my actions on instinct not reason; so there is almost no way that you would get hurt, and if you did fall I could probably get there fast enough to catch you before you hit the floor." He said with a small smile.

Grimmjow

'Damn that was close' I thought as I stared back up at her with a smile. I knew the answer that I had given her wasn't going to be enough but it would do for now. The topic would eventually be brought back up again but I knew that I had successfully evaded the conversation or the time being. I reached over and wrapped an arm around her body pulling her over to me.

"So what do you want to eat for dinner?" she asked as she moved closer to me to lay her head down on my chest.

"I could think of a couple things." I replied with another smile.

3 days later

Tatsuki

After three days of doing any and everything that Grimmjow wanted I was finally able to convince him to do something that I wanted.

"What the hell is in there?" Grimmjow asked as he looked down at the water of the hot spring. I rolled my eyes as I stepped into the warm spring water.

"It's water Grimmjow." I said as I reached a hand out trying to coax him into the water.

"Why is it steaming like that?" he asked as he eyes the water.

"It's a hot spring you idiot, it's supposed to be like this. Now get in." I commanded as leaned against the side of the tub to look at him.

"I don't want to." He replied.

"Come on it isn't even that hot." I said.

"I said I don't want to." He replied as he backed away from the edge of the spring. "

"Then why did you even come here?" I asked

"Because you said you wanted to come and that this would be fun." He replied with a bitter frown. "Can't we just go back to the room?" he whined as he reached forward and splashed water at me with his hand.

"No, I'm not ready to leave yet, I'm having fun here."' I said as I backed away from the edge of the tub. He rolled his eyes as he sat on the edge of the hot spring watching me. I knew he was ready to leave but he had no choice but to stay. We weren't going anywhere until I was ready to leave this place.

"I thought the water was too hot." I asked as watched him reluctantly climb into the hot spring and tread over to me.

"It is; I don't even get how you can stand being in here. As long as we are here I might as well make my own fun." He said as he moved over to stand next to me.

"It's about time you get the idea." I said he wrapped his arms around me and pulled me closer to him. I smiled as I leaned my weight against him for support. He let out a low laugh as he slid his hands down under the water and into my bathing suit bottoms.

"This place could turn out to be a lot more fun than I thought." He said as he let his hand roam freely underneath the water.

"Yeah it could be but we can't do this here." I said to him.

"And why not?" he asked.

"Because the springs aren't private, someone could walk in and catch us." I said. he didn't reply he just smiled as he backed me into the edge of the pool trapping my in between the wall and his body.

"That makes it all the more fun." He replied as he leaned down and kisses my neck softly.

"And what happens if we do get caught?" I asked before I was caught off by him pressing a finger to my lips.

"Well worry about that when and if it even happens." He said with a sinister yet playful smile.